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Sitting Pretty by Richard Whittlestone
CountryYO U R c o m p l i m e n ta ry L I F E S T Y L E M AG A Z I N E Est. 1994
April 2013 North Edition
Read Country Images on-line FREE at www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk
Barrow HallBARROW-ON-TRENT
CollectingCAST IRON
MATLOCK’S
HydrosGardeners’ Directory
MiddletonLong Dale&
Wining and DiningIdeas for
on trend fashion
Splash
Sarah Brigham
Alfreton
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lost Kingdom of Jerusalem and reigned as
King at Acre from 1209-1237. He was also
elected Emperor of the East in 1229,
moving to Constantinople where he died.
Louis of Acre, a son by his second
marriage, married Agnes the daughter and
heiress of Richard, 4th Viscount de
Beaumont in France. Their descendants
took that name and settled largely in
Leicestershire. The senior branch,
technically princes of the Empire and
Jerusalem, not to mention Lords of
Basqueville (a French peerage created by
Henry VI) were long seated at Coleorton.
A secondary branch settled at Gracedieu
and another at Thringstone where a
younger son, Edward Beaumont who was a
Roman Catholic, acquired the confiscated
lands of St John at Barrow in 1542. At first
the family lived at Arleston House and
about a decade later he leased the
advowson of the church at Barrow from his
brother. It was only in 1598/1601, when
Francis Beaumont came of age that the
family moved to the village of Barrow and
built the first hall there, although it may
have contained an earlier core made up of
the 30ft by 20ft central great hall.
The building was of Keuper sandstone,
probably from Weston Cliff, slightly to the
east on the Leicestershire side of the river,
and was of relatively modest proportions,
for tax was paid a century or so later on a
modest eight hearths. This is the equivalent
of Heage Hall and that at Kirk Langley
(subsequently rebuilt). It was gabled, built
on a typical H-plan of the period and
certainly had stone mullioned windows.
The depredations of punitive levies on
Catholics probably ensured that only
minor modifications were made to it prior
to the end of the 18th century. These no
doubt included the flooring over of the
great hall to create a couple of bedrooms
above. The family also had a six-roomed
town house in All Saints’ parish, Derby.
In 1808 John Beaumont, on the back of
generally rising income from landed
property in the wars against France,
decided to build a new house. This was a
handsome, fashionably Neo-classical
mansion in brick and stucco, the latter
being a covering of Brookhouse’s Roman
Cement grooved to resemble ashlar and
applied to hide the joins, for the fabric of
the new house incorporated much of that
of its predecessor. The south garden front
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Bakewell, of course worked in wrought iron, but from the
1770s, when Francis Hurt began forging iron at Alderwasley
on the middle Derwent, cast iron began to be made in the
County. Although Hurt started with a forge, he soon began to
cast items too, for we know that when Joseph Pickford was
clerk of works at Kedleston Hall under Robert Adam, he
ordered a number of cast iron fire-grates from Hurt along with
the balusters for the bridge over the lake.
Within about 15 years a foundry had been set up in Derby by
Thomas Glover and as with all of Derby’s industries at that
time, it made items for the luxury end of the market: cast iron
balustrades for staircases, ornamental fencing for gentlemen’s
villas and so on.
The most distinguished firm to make architectural cast iron
was Messrs. Weatherhead & Glover, which represented a
continuation of the efforts of Glover in tandem with Samuel
Weatherhead, proprietor of an ironmongery appropriately
situated in Iron Gate, which is continued today as Bennett’s.
Glover needed room to expand from his cramped foundry in
the middle of Derby and Weatherhead wanted to put his
profits to good use, cut out the middleman and make things he
could sell in his shop. Therefore they set up a new foundry in
1818 just north of the town centre on land which had
originally been part of the park of St Helen’s House.
The foundry, known as the Britannia Foundry (hence nearby
Britannia Street and the surviving Furnace Inn), by 1848 had
come into the hands of Andrew Handyside (1805-1887). The
Handysides came originally from Liberton in Midlothian, but
Andrew’s father, an Edinburgh merchant, married the sister of
Charles Baird of St Petersburg, an ironfounder and engineer
there. Of their five sons, two traded to Russia and founded the
Blue Anchor Line as a result and three, including Andrew the
youngest son, went to work with the Bairds in St Petersburg.
Their Russian enterprise was associated with the business of
Samuel Job Wright of the Limes in Mickleover, who ran an
import-export trading alliance with Imperial Russia and was
also a successful silk throwster. He appears to have tipped the
young Handyside off that there was an opportunity to acquire
the foundry in Derby.
Handyside & Company ran successfully until 1911 when it
went into administration but then rose from the ashes and
carried on until 1932, when it was finally carried off in the
great recession. The firm is famous for making vast civil
engineering set-pieces: railway stations, bridges etc, but at first
Handyside continued the tradition of making domestic cast
iron pieces: garden seats, fountains, drinking fountains,
railings, balustrades and similar. Fortunately, a copy of the
firm’s catalogue survives in the Derby Local Studies Library.
The firm’s standard rustic garden seats are a version of a design
published by John Claudius Loudon, the man who designed
Derby’s Arboretum in 1840. One of the models was adopted
for its station seats by the Midland Railway. Indeed, I bought
an example 20 years ago for £50 with two supports; you could
have as many supports as you wanted and a carpenter would
make the slatted seats they supported. My example still has
some of the railway company’s Midland Lake paint on it, so it
would have come from a station somewhere between St
Pancras and Glasgow! J & G Haywood of Iron Gate (like
Bennetts ironmongers) also had a foundry, called the Phoenix
Local Antiquesby Maxwell Craven
Collecting
Derby has been associated withiron working for centuries,although it was only whenRobert Bakewell fromMelbourne took up residence inthe Borough in 1712 thatDerby acquired a seriousreputation for iron working.
Handyside campana urn
sold at Bamfords for £600 in 2009
CAST IRON
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Foundry, which stood between Nottingham Road and the
Derwent. They patented a garden seat very like Handyside’s, with
faux rustic timber framing, but embellished with a canopy help
aloft by thin cast iron supports. These appear to have broken
rather easily (cast iron being fairly brittle) and I have never seen a
complete example. Survivors can be distinguished by small raised
iron protrusions on the arms where the canopy supports were
once attached. I have seen three examples, one of which is
outside the front door at Calke.
Handyside’s ornamental fountains and urns come up at auction
with reasonable frequency, the most popular model consisting of a
shell supported by three sinuous dolphins which are usually
signed discreetly on the casting; if not one needs to consult their
catalogue. A particularly attractive fountain example was sold in
2009 at Bamfords for nearly £5,000 although less spectacular
examples usually fetch a good deal less. A municipal park-sized
example was bought by Derby Museum in the 1990s for £8500.
Handyside also made a good standard campana urn, an example
of which Bamfords sold for over £600 also in 2009, despite a
layer of paint. J & G Haywood made fluted urns from around
1850. At Ilkeston Museum is what appears to have been a
bespoke urn, made by Handyside. The sides have pierced flanks
made to look like lace and a row of portrait heads (presumably of
prominent aldermen) around the socle. The lace and aldermen
would seem to indicate Ilkeston and the occasion was probably
the grant of Borough status which marked the Queen’s Golden
Jubilee in 1887. Many of these objects were supplied for
conservatories and hence are usually in good condition but those
which went into municipal parks and people’s gardens tended to
weather and now show their age more. Nevertheless, such is the
quality of the casting, that there is generally remarkably little rust
on the better examples.
From the coming of the railways in 1839, iron founding in Derby
moved to heavy engineering, along with domestic ranges and
grates. Some made collectable items too. Jobson’s foundry, which
moved from Sheffield to Derby in 1849, closed as Qualcast in
1991. One product of their works, which occasionally comes up
for sale, is a memorial plaque to the Duke of Wellington, who
died in 1852. It’s a handsome thing, eleven inches in diameter;
the Iron Duke’s head faces left, on a pounced ground with a ducal
coronet on a cushion set above it and on the reverse is the legend:
‘Moulded by Jobson’s patent process/Litchurch Works Derby/13th
November 1854’ On the duke’s collar it says: ‘Registered No. 3’.
The going rate for one in good condition is around £70-£100 at
auction, although I bought ours for £30 some years ago, made
affordable (to me at any rate!) through having several layers of
gloss paint on it. Once removed, however, it looked a treat!
T R A D I T I O NA L F U R N I T U R ER E S TO R E R S A N D F R E N CH
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When the Romans engineered their Rykneild Street
from Derby to Chesterfield, they built a small wayside
fortlet above what later became Pentrich. Nearby they
created a side road called Lilley Street linking the
north-south route to the rich deposits of coal and
ironstone lying beneath what later became Alfreton.
It is said that the name Alfreton means ‘Alfred’s Town’ after King
Alfred who, as well as burning the cakes, managed to keep the
Danes in their place. Whether or not the story is true there was
certainly a settlement here when the Domesday scribes recorded it
as Elestretune. A later turnpike road to the east of Rykneild Street put
the town well and truly on the map. As a result several coaching
inns were opened to cater for weary travellers and though a few
have been converted to other uses, their frontages speak evocatively
of the long gone days of coach travel. One such inn is, or was, the
George which stands on the cross roads of King Street and High
Street. Now converted into flats, its white fronted façade in typical
AlfretonWith historic roots and a one-time mining background in both coal and
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Georgian style mockingly beckons passengers alighting from
modern buses at the market place.
Standing at the corner of the George where the road continues
along its way to Chesterfield, is a cast-iron marker correctly giving
the mileage to Alfreton as zero. This anomaly came about through
the apparent misinterpretation of the Turnpike Act which insisted
that all distances between turnpike gates must be shown.
The town seems to have developed piecemeal with very little
habitation around the thirteenth century parish church of St Martin
to the west of the town centre cross roads. Originating in Saxon
times and although the Victorians managed to zealously put their
architectural stamp on it, the oldest recognisable link with
pre-Norman times is the head of an ancient preaching cross that is
thought to have marked the grave of the first priest in the place.
Practically all the residential areas are to the east, no doubt as
dictated by later coal mining activities. Along with the church and
a line of Victorian town houses, Alfreton Hall was about the only
development until more recent times. The hall was the home of
the Lord of the Manor until the last holder of the title, William
Palmer-Morewood died in 1957. Nowadays the building dating
from 1750 is a conference centre and restaurant with the park
used as a leisure facility for local dog walkers and strollers. More
energetic activities are catered for at the modern Leisure Centre
with its keep-fit rooms, swimming pools and as a place to meet
and gossip.
Alfreto LeisureCentre and a
‘House ofConfinement’,a small lock up.
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Despite the loss of the coal mining activities that thrived since
Chaucer’s days, Alfreton seems to have recovered and now has
two busy industrial estates along with firms closer to the town
centre. One of the latter is not far from the High Street and
belongs to David Nieper Ltd, manufacturers of high quality ladies’
nightwear; it is worth commenting here that in this day and age of
imported textiles, Nieper’s still manage to make most of their
range of garments with a locally employed workforce. To the
south of the town, Cotes Park estate serves a range of heavy
industry and just across the B600 Nottingham Road lies the
cloistered headquarters of Country Images magazine along with a
whole range of thriving industries such as Acanthus, makers of
cast stone garden ornaments and architectural features.
Despite the Tesco supermarket dominating the approach below
the town centre, there are still a number of independent shops
amongst the inevitable charity shops, a frequent indoor market
and on the High Street there is even a Burton’s gent’s outfitters.
Admittedly it mainly caters for the younger male, but it must be
one of the few remaining links with how our local high
streets looked, not all that long ago. A fine stone-built Elizabethan
house at the end of the shops in High Street is now taken over as
council offices.
Continuing out of town, the road drops down to the railway
station, a stop on the line linking Alfreton to Nottingham,
Chesterfield and beyond. The station used to be known as
The imposing fifteenth centuryCarnfield Hall and itsimpressive entrance.
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Alfreton, but there is no point in the locals expecting to
commute rapidly into the capital, for trains will not be stopping
anywhere nearby.
A little further along the road towards South Normanton, a side
track through bushes on the right leads to Carnfield Hall. This
imposing fifteenth century house was first owned by the
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Wingfield Manor. For many years the house was owned by
another local family, the Revells and has up to today remained in
private hands, previous owners include the nephew of the
romantic novelist Barbara Cartland. The hall is not open to the
public, but teas and light refreshments are occasionally served in
the old stable block.
Back in the town and left at the traffic lights at the market place
cross roads, the main road drops down towards the A38 traffic
island. On the right, beyond the Devonshire Arms public house,
a single storey stone building with a heavy studded oak door, two
circular fan lights high in the wall and a single central chimney
stands oddly amongst modern properties. The structure dates
from around 1821 and was termed a ‘House of Confinement’, a
small lock up. Being so far from Derby and the nearest jail, with a
period of lawlessness following the rapid expansion of the town,
it was necessary to have somewhere to hold wrong doers, if only
temporarily.
Travelling on and opposite the traffic lights for the road to
Wessington and Matlock, the well built but neglected building
opposite the lights commands attention. As the name carved in
stone both over the entrance and along the side wall facing the
road, this is, or was, the Abraham Lincoln Library. It and the
nearby church built with the same high quality brick was
endowed by Robert Watchorn in the 1920s. He was a local pit
boy who emigrated to the USA and made good, becoming the US
Commissioner between 1905 and 1909 for Ellis Island, the port of
entry into the United States and then later a Vice President of
Union Oil, an eventual subsidiary of Esso. Returning to his
birthplace along with the small park opposite which was a
memorial to his wife, he endowed the library, but unfortunately
didn’t consider how far it then was from the town centre. As a
result the library was never well used and the building is currently
owned by a builder who has plans for its more useful conversion.
Alfreton has produced its fair share of interesting people; in 1662
one John Oldfield made himself unpopular by preaching against
the Act of Uniformity and was driven out of his parish to become
a wanderer: James Young can be considered to be one of the
fathers of the modern oil industry when he produced candle wax
from petroleum deposits in a coal mine at Riddings and Sally
Pepper a newscaster on BBC East Midlands was born here.
For a town which has suffered the loss of its main industry and
could have become something of a backwater when traffic
patterns moved away, Alfreton is a thriving place that manages to
retain the air of a rural town despite its size.
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Between the mid 1800s until its slow decline less than a hundred
years later, Matlock flourished as a hydropathic town. It attracted the
rich and famous who came for the dubious ‘water treatment’ in one of
at least forty three establishments that sprang up around the town.
Brian Spencer traces the town’s once fashionable history.
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Hydros
Matlock’s most obvious link with hydropathy is the huge
building dominating the eastern hillside high above the
town centre. Now the headquarters of Derbyshire
County Council, it served for around a hundred years as
a hydro founded by John Smedley, a hosiery
manufacturer with premises at Wirksworth and Lea Mills.
Born 12 June 1803 he inherited his father Thomas’s
business in 1823. For a time the business prospered
under his leadership, especially when he managed to
adapt stocking frames to handle wool. Unfortunately this
involved long hours of hard, taxing work and as a result
his health broke down while on honeymoon in 1846.
Part of the treatment aimed at securing his recovery took
him to Ben Rhydding, a hydro on Ilkley Moor near Otley
in Yorkshire. Here he was subjected to a regime of cold
baths and powerful showers as prescribed by the
in-house consultant, Dr Macleod. Impressed by its
effectiveness which lead to his apparent recovery,
Smedley decided to spread the word of this new-found
medicine, alongside converting the world to his own
brand of Methodism.
Using his employees as what might be considered guinea
pigs, he subjected them to preaching and cold water
baths. For his workforce this was a small price to pay as
working conditions in John Smedley’s mills were far
ahead of those given to other mill workers – hot food and
dry clothing on rainy days were just two of the benefits
of working for Smedley. Basing his methods partially on
those in use at spas in nearby Buxton as well as
Harrogate, he decided to open a suitable establishment
taking advantage of the bracing air on the slopes above
Matlock.
No doubt one of the reasons for choosing Matlock was
due to the fact that there was already a hydropathy
practitioner operating in the area. This was Ralph Davis
of Darley Dale who bathed clients in their own homes
Rockside Hydro served as a
psychiatric hospital for air crew
during World War II.
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Now the headquarters of DerbyshireCounty Council, the huge buildingdominating the eastern hillside high above Matlock town centre,served for around a hundred years as a hydro founded by John Smedley.
Above: The famous stained
glass entrance to the hydro.
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before going on to rent an eleven-roomed house in 1851. On the
advice of John Smedley he installed hydropathic equipment and
was so successful that he moved to larger premises a couple of
years later. This building was taken over by Smedley who
eventually turned it into the huge structure that remains to this
day. Ralph Davis continued to practise the strange art from
Chesterfield House, originally a dairy farm off Chesterfield Road
and now owned by the sisters of the Presentation Convent.
Right from the start Smedley operated a strict regime by banning
tobacco in all its forms, alcohol and confectionery; fraternising
with members of the opposite sex was punished with a fine, as
were many of the minor misdemeanours that offended the
autocratic man. Life for patients taking the water cure was far
from one of indulgent luxury beyond the palatial surroundings of
the public rooms. Rather than simply drinking the water as in
spas such as Bath or Buxton, the emphasis was on its external
application. It goes without saying that the water was always icy
cold and the methods employed varied between wrapping the
victim in cold wet sheets to needle showers applied to extremities
of the body – a special sit shower was considered efficacious in te
cure of haemorrhoids! For a change, mustard baths must have
been exceptionally painful; thoughts of Guantamano Bay water
torture come to mind when considering what went on with the so
called cures.
During its relatively brief popularity, the hydro played host to the
great and famous. Arriving by the cable operated tram over the
bridge from the railway station, well known visitors ranged from
the conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, composer Ivor Novello,
George Robey and Harry Lauder, comedians and General
William Bramwell Booth, son of the founder of the Salvation
Army whose mother came from Ashbourne. The actor Dirk
Bogarde studied aerial photographic interpretation while
stationed at Smedley’s during the war. This was when the
building was taken over as a training depot for military
intelligence operators.
Food was of the highest quality and records from the time speak
of weights of produce by the ton grown or reared on local farms
owned by Smedley. However, the resident’s life was still
governed by strictly imposed rules. Dancing and alcohol
consumption did not arrive until after John Smedley’s death on 27
July 1874, but it cannot be said that gentlemen residents went
without their favourite tipple. The Gate Inn, conveniently just
across Bank Road is alleged to have run a profitable trade
smuggling bottles wrapped in plain brown paper parcels and
many a page boy made a useful addition to his wages as a
go-between.
Much of the opulence of Smedley’s Hydro can still be seen in and
around county offices. Committee rooms are still panelled in
richly varnished mahogany and the staircase leading off the
entrance hall climbs beneath a series of stained glass windows
that rise through three floors. Renaissance-style figures including
Hygea goddess of health stands above the motto ‘Mens sana in
corpore sano’, ‘a healthy mind in a healthy body’. ‘Magna est
veritas et prevalebit’, meaning ‘Great is the Truth and it will
Prevail’ is inscribed beneath the figure of ‘Truth’ whose hand
holds a goblet of pure water’. The one time winter garden’s glass
dome provides clear light for the desks of the planning
department. Regrettably visitors can no longer stroll around
terraced gardens, or play croquet or tennis as the landscaped
grounds are now given over to the modern need for councillors’
and employee’s car parks.
Taking the water cure.
Matlock (Old Bank) House.
Once used as a tax office,
now flats.
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John Smedley encouraged his senior employees to ‘spread the
gospel’ by opening their own establishments, large or small and
run with different styles. With the main hydro at the centre rather
like a mother hen with its chickens, most of the buildings can still
be seen around the upper reaches of the town. No longer used
for their original purpose, the following brief entries of the main
subsidiary hydros give a little background to their brief careers
and present lives:
Bank House Hydro (also known as Wyvern House Hydro). Off
New Street, it ran until 1920 when it became the Ernest Bailey
Grammar School, but now houses the Derbyshire County Council
Records Department.
Bridge Hall Hydropathic Establishment. At the bottom of Bank
Road it now forms part of Derbyshire Dales District Council
headquarters.
Chesterfield House Hydro. The original Matlock Hydro run and
owned by Ralph Davis. Situated off Chesterfield Road on Matlock
Bank. Now owned by the Sisters of the Presentation Convent.
Jackson House, Jackson Tor. This building has led a varied career,
never quite succeeding either as a hydro, or in its most recent
incarnation as a hotel.
Lilybank Hydro, Chesterfield Road. Opened in 1890
by subsequent owners of Chesterfield House. Now
owned by the Presentation Convent and run as a
preparatory school and then later as a nursing home.
Malvern House Hydro, Smedley Street. Originally
owned by Job Smith a local entrepreneur who was
very much involved with the Bank Road cable
tramway. Taken over by Smedley’s in
1918, it later became a furniture
warehouse for ‘Mickey’ Morris, another
local character. Now converted into apartments.
Matlock House Hydro. Part of the large building near the top of
Bank Road, it is on the right beyond county offices. Opened in
1863 by a Mr Lee of Manchester and then run by a Mr Rowland
and Miss Wise. Entertainments featured tableaux vivants, ‘living
pictures’, along with indoor and outdoor games.
Rockside Hydro. The imposing twin-turreted building on the
Cavendish cliff top high above the upper section of Bank Road.
Ran as a hydro from 1862 until 1946 when it was converted into
a teachers’ training college, now developed as an apartment
block. Served as a psychiatric hospital for air crew during World
War II.
Numerous other smaller establishments dot the west facing
sun-catching slopes above Matlock, aptly named Matlock Bank.
Mainly converted into private homes, they, together with the
larger establishments and Smedley’s Hydro (County Offices), are a
lasting reminder of Matlock’s temporary bid for fame and fortune
as a spa town.
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We are now nicely into Spring. A few days ago the weather had
been wet as depression after depression sped bringing cold, wet,
arctic and windy conditions. The ground was saturated, so any
rain ran off into streams almost immediately, any prospect of water
shortages no longer a topic of conversation. Now, memories of
winter are evaporating in the morning sunshine. Clear skies at this
time of year produce ground frosts and we can be plunged back
into winter very quickly, so why not ‘make hay while the sun
shines’.
How wonderful it is to stand in the countryside and marvel at
the forces that are involved in producing spring and the
‘renaissance’ in the natural world. These forces have been at work
for weeks but now their work is becoming noticeable, having a
marked effect on the natural world. I stood looking and listening
the other evening after sunset, comfortable in the still air but by
morning there had been another ground frost. Everything I could
see and hear was responding to the lengthening days and rising
temperatures. Birds were singing, especially blackbirds, the cocks
proclaiming ownership of territories from virtually every part of
the countryside. Hedgerows and trees are ‘greening’, their shapes
being altered as fresh leaves cloak twigs and branches. Butterflies
and dragonflies flew during the day and on occasions I had
looked for swallows despite knowing it was much too early. Rooks
are calling incessantly from rookeries, caught up in the excitement
of it all and the large winter flock has now dispersed. More
butterflies are appearing, as are large flies but I have yet to see a
bumble bee. The green woodpeckers are yaffling from different
parts of the wood and pied wagtails are increasingly prominent in
clean, bright plumage. Chaffinches have been singing for weeks
and the robin has never stopped. Moorhens are mating, the
kingfisher occasionally flashes by and a pair of mallards quack at
all hours during the night.
Every day brings to light fresh treasures, yesterday was the turn
of the lesser celandines on the stream bank. ‘Oh to be in
England’! The scale of this change is difficult to embrace and is
only just beginning to gather momentum. One can only wonder
what effect it had on country people many, many years ago who
were more at the mercy of the elements than we are today.
I have long been interested in reading and listening to sayings
relating to the countryside and last summer, quite by chance, I
bought a book containing over four thousand sayings relating to
the French countryside. A cursory glance made me realise I would
have to resort to a good dictionary but using this made my
browsings much richer. It has also strengthened my belief that
there are more similarities than differences between people of
different countries. I have decided to include a few extracts from
the book to illustrate this relating to spring and the month of April,
the section under ‘printemps’ being the largest in the book.
‘After the long darkness of winter, the cold and shortages of
food, the arrival of spring was like a deliverance for the
peasants of the Middle Ages. They celebrated the death of
winter and the victory of light over darkness by lighting fires
and rejoicing but this didn’t last long because much work
had to be done in gardens, fields and vineyards’.
‘Spring flowers are autumn fruits’.
‘When the cuckoo sings, one day is wet, another dry, that’s
spring’.
‘One magpie in spring announces bad weather’.
‘April is the month of renaissance, the sun’s rays are warmer
and begin to warm the earth. Migrating birds arrive, skylarks
and blackbirds are singing and white butterflies fly among
the blossom. Trees are covered in buds, the first leaves
appear and animals begin to change their fur’.
‘When it thunders in April, the wine grower rejoices and the
ploughman also’
‘The new moon in April never passes without a frost’.
‘April rain is good luck for the land’.
‘April, one good out of a thousand’.
Bye for now,
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Theatre in Derby is changing. The
city’s former Playhouse is not only
preparing to stage its own plays
alongside touring productions – but a
new atmosphere is beginning to take
hold at Derby Theatre.
If you have visited the building in the past couple of months you
might have been accosted by Sarah Brigham, the first artistic
director to be appointed by the theatre since the University of
Derby took complete control of the venue.
It was part of her strategy, which also involved striking up a
conversation with people in the Westfield shopping centre, to
discover what people want from the theatre.
She comes over as confident, friendly and knowledgeable –
qualities that have led to her being acknowledged as an
up-and-coming talent in British theatre.
She comes to Derby from The Point and the Berry Theatre at
Eastleigh, Hampshire where she produced innovative productions
which toured internationally. Before that she was associate
director at Dundee Rep for four years.
She says she was excited by Derby Theatre’s unique position of
staging its own productions as well as bringing on the next
generation of artists through its university courses.
On top of that “Derby is a beautiful city in a beautiful part of the
world.”
While many theatres around the country are struggling for finance
because of local authority cuts, Sarah wants to explore the
relationship that the theatre and the university have with the city.
“Lots of theatres say they’ve got learning at their heart and I’m
really interested in how you offer something that’s different as
well. We’re in a unique position in that we’ve got a very strong
relationship with the university and I’m really interested in
interrogating what that means not only for the students but also
for our audience.”
One of her innovations is to train the theatre’s ushers to become
“talking programmes”.
“Whenever we’ve got a produced show, they’ll come into our
rehearsal room and they’ll meet the designer and the creative
team. Actually they’re the people who are our audience.
“I’m here most nights but I’m not here every night and I can’t talk
to everyone whereas our ushers genuinely engage with our
audience on a nightly basis.
“I want them to be in a situation where they can approach
audience members and say ‘is there something you want to know
about the show? If I don’t know I can write the question down
and I can find out from the artistic director and she’ll reply within
so many days’. It’s an interesting concept for us.”
Everything seems so different from the dark days that befell the
building not so many years ago.
The former Derby Playhouse Ltd went into administration in 2008
and the venue closed. The following year the University of Derby
bought the lease and reopened it with the help of Derby LIVE, the
city council’s entertainments division.
After three years the university decided not to renew its
agreement with Derby LIVE and applied to the Arts Council for
the same amount of funding that had been enjoyed in previous
years. But the Arts Council said no. One of the reasons was that
the university did not have its own artistic director.
Eventually the Arts Council awarded Derby Theatre £923,000
over three years – less than half the amount that it used to grant
Derby Theatre has an amazing space
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Steve Orme
Derby Playhouse. On top of that the university is giving the
theatre £500,000 a year.
Recently Arts Council regional director Peter Knott said the
organisation was impressed with Sarah Brigham and the theatre’s
work with the University.
Sarah’s vision and philosophy are largely responsible.
“Long gone are the days when someone pays £25, sits in their
theatre seat on a Saturday night, goes home and that’s all they
know.
“When you see a film now you can watch how the director made
it, you can watch what the casting process was like, and Derby
Theatre needs to get with the programme a little bit. We can offer
that whole plethora of understanding to our audiences as well.”
Sarah feels that in some ways Derby Theatre is similar to The Point
at Eastleigh which is the only venue in the UK to have rehearsal
studios with living accommodation, allowing it to work with
artists of international recognition.
“Derby Theatre has an amazing space – I think this stage is really
beautiful and unique. We’ve got the same ability to attract artists
of international standing and bring them here.”
Excitement is building now as people anticipate the productions
Sarah Brigham will bring to the city.
The first in-house production will be Cooking With Elvis, a
comedy written by Lee Hall, best known for penning the script for
the film Billy Elliot.
That will be followed by a classic: a new version of Chekhov’s
The Seagull, in a co-production with critically acclaimed theatre
company Headlong.
Speaking about Cooking With Elvis, Sarah says: “In the summer,
audiences want a bright comedy that’s going to be a lot of fun but
that’s also going to have real artistic integrity.
“I think this show has that. It’s very funny but it’s also very
moving. It ticks the box of being modern, contemporary but also
accessible, funny and it’s a great piece of theatre.”
Four years ago Sarah was presented with the Writers’ Guild of
Great Britain award for encouraging new writing. She would like
to produce new work in Derby although she admits she has to put
on what the audience wants.
“I’d like to look at how we can commission new work and
ultimately I can do whatever I want. But if there are only two men
and a dog in the audience, what’s the point?
“I do think there’s an appetite for new work as much as there is
for the classics, so hopefully we can do a bit of both.”
Some people may think that Derby Theatre is merely a stop-off for
Sarah Brigham on her way to running one of the top venues in the
country. But she clearly knows how she would like people to
regard the building in a few years’ time.
“I would like to be able to go out into the streets and every single
person I stop be able to direct me to where Derby Theatre is, and
know that it’s called Derby Theatre and not Derby Playhouse.
“I’d like us to have a really diverse audience, a really different
audience, and a full audience of course.
“I’d like our youth theatre to be seen as a training ground for the
next generation of artists.
“Some people don’t want to come to the theatre and that’s okay
but I’d like those people to see the good that it does for the
community.
“I’d like to see some international profile and recognition in terms
of the artists that we bring here. Generally, I’d like Derby Theatre
to be thriving and successful.”
Dedicated theatregoers may remember with affection artistic
directors such as Mark Clements, now resident in the United
States, and Christopher Honer for their work on the Derby stage.
In years to come Sarah Brigham’s name may evoke similar
sentiments.
Cooking With Elvis will run
at Derby Theatre from Friday
26th April until Saturday
18th May.
Derby Theatre has an amazing space
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To find out more please ring Swadlincote TIC - 01283 222848or visit www.thenationalforestwalkingfestival.org.uk
6th National Forest Walking Festival
18-30 May 2013The best way to see the Forest is on foot!
100 walks in the gentle countryside of The National Forest
This is the second of my walks in Collins Walks in the Peak District which I am
currently checking for any changes. Fortunately there are no alterations necessary to
the actual route, but there is one interesting addition to features seen along the way.
This is a Millennium project to mark various points along the parish boundary with what
became known as Sites of Meaning. When I planned the Collins walks the project was in its
early planning stages and so it was impossible to include it in my walk, but as my apparent
neglect did not affect the description of the walk, I justifiably left it out. Each marker, for that
is what they are, is unique; but all have an appropriate phrase carved into their face, whether
it is flat on the ground or upright. A stone table next to the playground in the centre of the
village has pointers showing the direction to each sculpture and also the individual phrases
on them that were chosen by members of the village and local school children. This walk
passes three sites, but there are many others which could while away a day or so this spring.
Two little known White Peak dales are explored on this walk which starts from the
secluded village of Middleton-by-Youlgrave. The first, Bradford Dale, has a river haunted by
trout, but Long Dale is dry. Between them, high limestone pastures are crossed along the
way, offering wide-ranging views over the surrounding countryside.
Middleton might seem a sleepy place today, but it has seen plenty of activity down the
centuries. It once had a castle although nothing remains apart from a mound and during the
English Civil War a bloody skirmish took place nearby.
walk with ramblerm n h y
MiddletonLong Dale&
Helpful Information6 miles (9.5km) of moderate field paths
and open limestone pasture. Can be muddy
around the exit from Bradford Dale and
near the head of Long Dale.
Public Transport: Hulley’s 171 service from
Bakewell runs hourly via Youlgrave on
weekdays and Saturdays, then at 10am on
Sunday & Bank Holidays, returning at
5:35pm
Car parking space is usually available near
the children’s play area at the road junction
in the centre of the village.
Recommended Map: Ordnance Survey
Outdoor Leisure 1:25,000 scale, sheet
OL24, The Peak District – White Peak area.
Refreshments: none in Middleton or along
the walk, but nearby Youlgrave has three
pubs.
• Go down the lane opposite the children’s
playground into Bradford Dale and then turn
right.
• Walk upstream and then cross the narrow
footbridge to your left. Climb the metal
ladder to the top of a limestone outcrop.
Turn right across the slope and go down to
the river again. Recross the stream by a wide
stone-slab footbridge. Cross the next fields
by using stone stiles in their boundary walls.
A partly overgrown pool in the bottom of the dale isthe uppermost of a series of mill ponds thatonce powered a small textile mill nearby and alsoa lead-crushing mill at Alport lower down thedale. Trout now take advantage of the clearwaters.
The side stream issuing from an beneath anoverhanging rock beside the path is a ‘sough’(pron: suff), dug to drain nearby lead mines.
Look out for the phrasing carved on the stone-slabbridge; it is part of Middleton’s Sites of Meaningseries, but is already showing signs of wear dueto the passage of feet.
• Go over the narrow lane and climb the
stone-stile opposite to follow the brook
upstream, keeping it on your left. Where it
bends to your left, continue ahead and uphill,
bearing right above a wooded ravine.
The underlying limestone strata on your side of thestream dip sharply towards Rowlow Brook. Rockson the far side of the brook have been worn intooverhangs by water action, partly by the stream,but mostly by meltwater at the end of the lastIce Age.
The Walk
Bradford Dale & Long Dale
Stone clapper bridge,River Bradford.
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• Turn left when you reach the upper road
and follow it until it makes a sharp bend to
the left. Continue ahead, slightly to your
right at this point, climbing along a sunken
track and then through open fields.
Viewpoint 1: Look back along the way you havecome. Bradford Dale points towards theprominent square tower of Youlgrave Church.Beyond and across the deep trough of theDerwent Valley, wooded slopes aboveChatsworth climb towards heather-clad BeeleyMoor, a riot of purple every summer.
Viewpoint 2: Almost secretive, Long Dale is below,a completely dry dale supporting short butsucculent grazing. On the opposite hillside thecurious grassy corrugations are the result ofgentle slippage of the hillside in wet weather.The clump of trees on the far skyline marksthe site of Minninglow tumulus. In summer tinyblue or yellow pansy-like flowers known as‘heart’s ease’ dot the hillside.
• Drop steeply down into Long Dale to visit
three standing stones in a small enclosure;
this is another boundary marker in the
Sites of Meaning series. Turn right away
from the stones and walk uphill along the
dale until you reach a short barred plank
section in the wire fence across the path.
This is not a stile and the correct thing to
do here is to turn right and follow the
fence uphill as far as a real stile. Cross this
and drop back down into the dale bottom
and turn right to continue along the dale
bottom.
• Continue along a narrow field, first with
trees on your right and then on both sides.
Go through an old gateway and follow the
grassy path as far as the road.
• Climb up to the road and turn right along it
for a little under half a mile.
Where the road crosses the head of Long Dalelook for the third of the Sites of Meaningstones; this one can be mistaken for amilestone and does in fact mark the way toNewhaven on the A515.
• A few yards past the entrance drive to a
farm on your left, turn right over a stile
and diagonally cross five fields, using stiles
and gates to find the route.
• Turn right along a farm lane. Where it
forms a crossroads beyond a large
sycamore tree, bear left along a walled
lane.
Viewpoint 3: Bradford Dale reappears below andleads the eye towards the Derwent’s heathermoors. Land to your left and right is based onlimestone all the way to Elton, the former
mining village to your right. The opposite orsouthern side of Bradford Dale is mostlygritstone as indicated by a proliferation oftrees that grow best on the moist and acidicsoils based on a foundation of gritstone.
• Drop down into tree-shaded Rake Lane and
turn right. Follow the road back into
Middleton.
If time allows follow the Youlgrave road for a littleway as far as the tiny Methodist chapelbeyond the last houses on the left. Walk upthe narrow path beside the chapel to find thetomb of ThomasBateman, an earlylocal archaeologistwho discoverednumerousprehistoric artefactsburied in Peaklandtumuli. Fittingly histomb is marked by astone reproductionof a Neolithic urn.
Boundary marker over Long Dale
on-line
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Derby Assembly Rooms & GuildhallTheatre. www.derbylive.co.uk01332 255800April2 Milton Jones: On The Road3 Chas & Dave – Back by Demand4 Michaela Strachan’s Really Wild Adventures5 Miss 6006 From The Jam
7 The Brothers Grimm9-13 Joseph and the Amazing TechnicolorDreamcoat15-20 Bill Kenwright and John Miller PresentSoul Sister17 Shifting Sands Theatre – Boxed In18 The Lucy Ward Band19 Chris Biscoe Profiles Quartet19 Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky19-20 Arts & Craft Fair21 Josephine Tewson21 Marcus Brigstocke – to be re–scheduled23 Hormonal Housewives23 Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell andGlenn Wool are… The LumberJacks24 Reform Theatre Company in associationwith Harrogate Theatre – Me & Me Dad24 An Evening with Bob Nudd MBE
25 Suggs: My Life Story...in words and music26 That’ll Be The Day27 Richard Digance27 Russell Kane Posturing Delivery29-30 Bill Bailey: QualmpeddlerMay3 Jimeoin – What?!4 Sean Lock5 Mick Foley – Tales From Wrestling Past 7 Lee Nelson8 UK Touring Theatre presents Miss Julie ByAugust Strindberg8 Jack Dee9 Dominic Kirwan – My Ireland!9 Tom Crean – Antarctic 9 The Halle10 The Noise Next Door:
Royal Centre Nottingham & ConcertHall 0115 989 5555www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.ukApril2 Alfie Boe2-6 Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty6 Nottingham Classics - The Hallé8 We'll Meet Again8 Strange Tales from the Flying Donkeys10-14 James & The Giant Peach
12 Simple Minds13 Beanbag music club16-20 The legendary BLOOD BROTHERStells the captivating and moving tale of twins.18 Czech Philharmonic Orchestra20 Micky Flanagan22 Midnight Tango22 McFly23 Mick Hucknall24 Ludovico Einaudi25 Michael Ball26 Science on Stage
27 Noises Off30 Leona LewisMay1OMD Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Darkare back on the road 2 Nottingham Classics - The Hallé3 Reginald D Hunter8 Nigel Kennedy presents: Bach8 Suggs: My Life Story. Madness front mantakes to the stage in a hilarious, yet moving,one man tour.10 Birmingham Royal Ballet
Lacemarket TheatreBox Office 0115 9507201AprilApril 24-27 The Taming of the Shrew
Nottingham Arenawww.nottingham-arena.comApril4 Il Divo and Katherine Jenkins12 Justin & Friends14 Meat Loaf16 One Direction23 WWE RAW World Tour27 The Professionals On IceMay15 Walking With Dinosaurs
Nottingham PlayhouseBox Office 0115 941 9419www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk5 276 Cloud Child7 Funny ‘n Stilettos8 Tony Benn17 Particle Velocity18 James Findlay19 Reduced Shakespeare Company20 Midland Youth (My) Dance Festival and
Bill Kenwright and John Miller are pleased to announce new dates for 2013 for the
smash-hit UK tour of Soul Sister the new musical inspired by the music, life and times of
Ike and Tina Sister, Turner, which caused a sensation in the West End. The show will visit
Derby LIVE’s Assembly Rooms from Mon 15 – Sat 20 April.
Soul Sister features all the classic Tina Turner hits including What’s Love Got to Do with It,
Proud Mary, Private Dancer, River Deep Mountain High and of course, Simply the Best. The
story follows the highs, lows, passions and heartbreak of Ike and Tina as their careers
soared whilst their marriage crumbled, ultimately leading to Tina being catapulted to
superstardom and heralded as one of the greatest solo artists of all time. Full of heart and
soul, electrifying choreography, and stunning musical numbers, Soul Sister is sure to have
you on your feet, partying the night away.
Tina Turner is arguably one of music’s greatest ever live performance and recording
artist‘divas’ and was named ‘one of the greatest singers of all time’ by Rolling Stone
Magazine.
With a career spanning over 50 years, her combined album and single sales total
approximately 180 million copies worldwide. She has won 9 Grammy Awards and an
induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, amongst many other accolades and honours.
Soul Sister stars Emi Wokoma as ‘Tina Turner’. Emi’s vocal and dance talents have attracted
huge critical and public acclaim since the production’s launch and she has subsequently
garnered nominations for the Evening Standard Theatre Awards and the Whatsonstage.com
awards.
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Fringe 201326 - May 18 The Kite RunnerBased on Khaled Hosseini’s hugely popularinternational best-selling novel.26-27 End to End
Buxton Opera House & Pavilion ArtsCentre. www.buxtonoperahouse.orgApril1Robin Hood and his Very Merry Men 2 The Best of Kendal Film Tour 2013 3 Josh Widdicombe4 The Solid Silver ‘60s Show5 Recitals at the Arts Centre - Solo PianoRecital5 An Evening With Julian Lloyd Webber5 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - April6 Bringing Down The Moon6 The Russian Cossacks7 Tideswell Male Voice Choir & HuntingdonMale Voice Choir
7 Rhydian Roberts plus support TOR. The Welsh star’s impeccable technique is theresult of a lifetime passion for singing and anunparalleled commitment to his craft.Beginning as a boy soprano at just age three,Rhydian’s goal has always been to connectwith the British public through the gift of hisclassically trained voice. Since then he hasbeen featured in the Classical Brits at theRoyal Albert Hall in London and toured theUK in Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds, Greaseand We Will Rock You.9 The Brothers Grimm9 T’Pau 10 Acker Bilk & Kenny Ball 11 Don’t Let The Pigeon Drive The Bus! 11-13 Jane Eyre12 I Spy Mrs Peery
13 James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids14 The Wind In The Willows15 Shaolin Warriors17 Beyond The Barricade18 The Ken Dodd Happiness Show18 Aly Bain & Phil Cunningham19 Neville’s Island19 Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me 20 Neville’s Island21 Andy Parsons22 Spring Awakening23 Patsy Cline - 50th Anniversary Tour25 Cosi Fan Tutte26 Simon Boccanegra26 Morte D’Arthur 27 The Siege of Calais27 Morte D’Arthur28 Rob Kingsley - A Vision of Elvis29 Tutu 2 – An Evening of Ballet & Dance30 Miss JulieMay1 Velocity2-5 Losing The Plot3 Recitals at the Arts Centre - Wolpe PianoTrio3 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - May4 Superhuman 5 Jazz at the Arts Centre - The Old GreenRiver Band 5 Four Farces 5Henning Wehn6 The Snow Queen7 Cadfael – The Virgin in the Ice
Palace Theatre Mansfieldwww.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre01623 63313April8 Wizard of Oz8-24 June Exercise Through Dance
10 Alice in Wonderland (Ballet)11 Best Friends Forever12 Supersonic 70s Show14 Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Band17 Jethro20 Johnny Cash Roadshow24 Made in Brum25 We’ll Meet Again27 How to Catch a Star28 Mike Harding29 Mansfield Music & Drama FestivalAdjudication SessionsMay1 Hormonal Housewives3-4 May Syncopation School of PerformingArts10 - 11 May Spotlight Studios
Brother Cadfael: The Virgin In The IceAdapted, designed and directed by Michael Lunney
Music: Lynette Webster & Ray Mytton
Lighting Design: Bob HodgesFilm Production: White Tip Media
A classic medieval murdermystery. Middle GroundTheatre Company proudlypresents the World PremièreStage Adaptation of Ellis Peters’famous medieval sleuthCADFAEL: The Virgin In TheIce.
It is winter 1139 and ragingcivil war has sent manyrefugees fleeing north fromWorcester, among them anorphaned boy, his beautiful 17year old sister, and a young nun.But they seem to havedisappeared somewhere in the
wild winter landscape of frost and snow – and Brother Cadfaelembarks on a dangerous quest to find them... The search will lead himto discover a chilling and terrible murder and a tale of passion goneastray.
Ellis Peters’ Cadfael novels sold millions of copies globally and thisWorld Stage Première celebrates the centenary of her birth.Veteran actor Gareth Thomas, twice BAFTA nominated in a careerwhich spans 50 years and includes the title role in the cult classic sci-fiseries Blake’s 7, leads a quality cast of fifteen, including Richard Walsh(London’s Burning), James Palmer (River City) and Rupert Baker(London’s Burning).
Featuring filmprojections, lavishsettings andbespoke music, thisstunning newproduction isproduced by MiddleGround TheatreCompany, who thisyear mark 25 yearsof bringing qualitydrama to the stage.
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BIRDWATCHING FOR BEGINNERS WALK
at CARSINGTON WATER
The Great Northern Diver - 4 of them - are back, the summer birds are
arriving - and there is every chance of seeing an Osprey in April, if the number
of sightings in 2012 is anything to go by!!! Join us for a leisurely 2-hour stroll
with the volunteers to see what is around, get some useful tips on bird
identification and where to find them. All walks start from the visitor centre at
10am prompt and are on the first Sunday of EVERY month. Adults
accompanied by children are always welcome - bring binoculars and
appropriate wear. Future dates -5th May, 2nd June and 7th July. Due to the high
number of bookings, Tel 01629 540696 to ensure a place
Darley Abbey Historical Group
Friday 19 April Chesterfield Tower's True History’, presented by Tony Hallam
Friday 17 May ‘Nightingale Heritage’, presented by Clive Tougher. All meetings
start at 7.30pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New
Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS. There is a charge of £1 for members of the
Historical Group and £2 for visitors. For further information contact Sheila
Hartle on 01332 557597.
Darley Abbey Community Association Annual Art & Craft
Exhibition to be held at Darley Abbey Village Hall on Saturday 6th & Sunday
7th April, from 10am - 5pm and 11am - 4pm respectively. Original art & craft
works from a number of local exhibitors will be available to view and purchase.
Refreshments on sale, free admission with optional donation to Village Hall
funds. For further information ring Terry Chappell on 01332 559824.
Little Chester Local History Group
Little Chester Heritage Centre. St. Paul's Church, Mansfield Road,
Chester Green, Derby. The Heritage Centre is now opening for the 2013
season (April 7th - October 31st) and we cordially invite you to visit our
Roman Artefacts display and also our intriguing exhibition of life at the Centre
school and its links with Chester Green Re-live memories of your student
days!! We are open every Sunday 2-4pm. Admission is free, with refreshments
available and all are welcome. For further information Tel 363354
Little Chester Local History Group
Thursday April 18th - a talk by Cathy McAteer - 'St Petersburg -
Venice of the North'. We meet at 7.30pm in Chester Green Community
Centre, Old Chester Road, Derby. Admission non-members £2. All are
welcome. For further information Tel. 559615.
Uppertown Social Centre
Sat 20th April The Shaydes, Vocal Harmony Group 7:00 for 8:00pm
£11 including supper. Uppertown, Ashover, S45 0JF. Contact Eddie Marriott for
information and tickets on: 01246 590502 or 07966 154798 Website
www.uppertown.org
Kyleburn Historical Society
APRIL 18: LAXTON - ENGLAND'S LAST OPEN FIELD VILLAGE
by STUART ROSE. Meetings at Kilburn Baptist church schoolroom, Highfield
Road, Kilburn. 7.30pm. Admission for non-members is £2.00.
Belper Historical Society
Belper Historical Society meet at St. John’s Chapel, Belper at 7.30pm Charge
for non-members £1.50.
The next meeting of the Derbyshire Branch of the Embroiderers’
Guild will be held on Saturday, 13th April 1.30pm for 2pm at Derbyshire
House, ( Derbyshire Federation of Women’s Institutes), Sherwin Street, Derby
DE22 1GP. The talk will be “All Along the Silk Route” by Diane Gaffney.
Visitors will be most welcome.
An Evening of Antiques with Charles Hanson from TV’s Bargain Hunt &
Antiques Roadtrip £5 (including light refreshments) Have your treasures
valued for £1 per item 19th April 2013 at 7:00pm. St Anne’s Church,
AMBERGATE, DE56 2EJ Tel 01773 852094 or 856394
Allestree Flower Group
Tuesday 16th April 2013 A.G.M and Social
Time 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Venue - Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree.
Admission £3 non members, members free For further details contact our
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Professionalism…Previously, Stephen practised at awellknown, leading high street hearingcare provider. Stephen combines thevery best aspects of corporateaudiology with his bespoke, morepersonalised approach to patient care.
Free from the fetters of corporatetrading relationships, he is entirely atliberty to offer the particular hearingsolution that he feels is appropriate forthe individual patient’s needs.
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The KelstedgeNestled in a picturesque valley on the edge of the Derbyshire Peak District, The Kelstedge is atraditional country pub offering great food, real ales, fine wine and fantastic service. Located on the Chesterfield to Matlock Road in the village of Kelstedge (just outside Ashover)their aim to provide a superb dining experience along with some fantastic real ales, hand chosenfrom both local and national breweries. www.thekelstedge.co.uk
Telephone: 01246 590448
The White Horse at Woolley MoorThe White Horse at Woolley Moor offers really great food and good hospitality. Their wide andvaried menus change on a regular basis and their bar snacks are not bad either! They arecurrently offering one, two and three course dishes from £10, £13 and £16, Tuesday through toThursday and Friday and Saturday lunchtimes. The atmosphere is relaxed and welcoming,offering great food and service.
Telephone: 01246 590319
The Marquis of OrmondeA warm welcome awaits you at the newly refurbished Marquis of Ormonde on Denby Lane,Codnor, Ripley. They offer fresh food served daily and cater for all occasions with their functionroom, fully licensed bar offering a selection of real ales, drafts, spirits and fine wines . They alsooffer a lunchtime specials menu, a midweek carvery and a traditional Sunday carvery. Nowserving speciality coffees.www.marquisoformonde.co.uk
Telephone: 01773 745222
Nico’s Italian Restaurant A little bit of Italy can be enjoyed at Nico’s. Head Chef Christopher Stannard brings a wealth ofexperience with his own take on Italian cuisine which includes pizzas, pasta dishes andvegetarian lasagna. They also offer ‘speciality’ dishes on their evening menu. Nico’s is adelightful family run Italian restaurant where you can enjoy fine food in pleasant surroundings.Weekend booking is essential. Nico’s is on Brick Street, just off Friar Gate, Derby.
Telephone: 01332 208220
Highlander Restaurant, Horsley LodgeNominated for ‘Restaurant of the Year’ last year in the Derbyshire Food and Drink awards, theHighlander Restaurant at Horsley Lodge is a stylish setting, serving up creative meals withfreshly delivered produce from its ‘food supplier’ partners. We cook to order with passion andpride. With views over the golf course Horsley Lodge is the place to relax and enjoy a meal. Themain menu is wide ranging, fresh, with stylish yet simple dishes and excellent value for money.
Telephone: 01332 780838
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Pretty black and white dress with dashes of red roses byMichaela Louisa, one of a beautiful spring/ summercollection available at Jillian Hart Fashions. This lovelydress would be great for any special occasion, holiday orcruisewear. Jillian Hart, 40-44, Babington Lane, Derby.Telephone 01332 347647
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Beautiful peep toe court shoe and matching handbag byKennel & Schmenger, perfect for a special occasion andnow available at John Barclay located on Babington Lane,Derby. John Barclay stock a lovely range of footwear byleading brands Gabor, Peter Kaiser, K & S, Van Dal, HB,Rieker and Camel to name but a few. Telephone 01332342260 for more details www.johnbarclayshoes.co.uk
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Heading into summer with the prettiest shades of pastels,combined with sophisticated neutrals from the romanticPomodoro collection at Clarkes of Ripley, GrosvenorRoad, Ripley. Sparkle dress by Pomodoro £135.
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Below - top:Loake boat/deck shoes now available from £74.99 at Rock Fall UK Ltd, WimseyWay, Alfreton Trading Estate.
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Right - top:Small traditional shoe shop Tarltons located in Somercotes Derbyshire stocks anarray of shoes suitable for all occasions, including weddings and holidays plus shoesfor everyday use. The shop stocks many brands including Equity, Wauldlaufer,Padders and Marco Tozzi to name but a few, along with a great range of shoes formen including the great boot shown. Call into the shop at 185 Nottingham Road,Somercotes, Derbyshire. Telephone 01773 602816
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Right:One of a stunning array of prom dresses available at Designs by Marlaine, perfectfor proms and school leavers day! For more information call into the shop at 82High Street, Alfreton, Derbyshire or telephone 01773 830787www.designsbymarlaine.co.uk
Below - top:If you’re looking for something a little different, a gift for the family or just foryourself, you will find a mix of gift ideas and accessories from traditional to slightlyquirky at The Designer and Seamstress. To match their range of Italian fashionthere is a selection of new handbags and jewellery too. T: 07935 206111
Below - middle:Knowing which way to go with our interiors can be confusing at times, with somany themes and trends to follow. Alpine Country Homes, a new shop based withinthe Peak Shopping Village at Rowsley features everything you would expect to seein an Alpine, Nordic or country setting; stags’ heads, owls, beautiful decorativehearts and a full range of silverware and cushions related to the country setting
Below - bottom:Italian handbags have a reputation for both classical style and flair. Giudi handbagsconform to the highest standards of design and manufacture to be expected. Bagsby “Giudi” can be found at “Pellegrino”, 5 Bridge Street, Belper Tel: 01773829999. Pellegrino have a range of styles and shades of Giudi and other bags. BuyItalian designer quality and style at sensible prices.
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Below - bottom right:Orkney Islands - a place of ancient Norse and Scottish history is thehome of Ortak Jewellery now becoming one of the UK’s leadingdesigners and manufacturers of gold and silver designer jewellery. In2012 they launched ‘Elementally Ortak’, based on the four elementsAir, Earth, Fire and Water with 12 new beautiful colours available intheir latest collections. Now available at The Crystal Heart,Bakewell 01629 814944
Below - Top:Conveniently situated in Ripley on Chapel Street, Salon ElizabethAnn was established in 1981. This small friendly salon has recentlyundergone a major refit giving it a light, modern feel. They offeradvice on hair care and treatments and use all professional productssuch as Wella, L’Oreal and Tigi. Elizabeth, the salon owner, has awealth of experience and has been in hairdressing 42 years andstylist, Sarah, also has 15 years experience. Open daily Tuesday toSaturday and late nights on Thursdays.Telephone 01773 746417 for an appointment.
Below - bottom left:From Rico summer patterns, this short sleeved cardigan is knittedfrom 003 Denim 100% cotton yarn and teams ideally with summerseparates. Yarn and pattern are available from U-duit, The WoolShop, Church Street, Ripley.
In a world where we are bombarded by 'miracle claiming products andtreatments' it can be hard to identify the treatments and products that reallywork. Suzie, owner of Senses... skin care centre and incidentally, a previousowner of the Professional Beauty, erapist of the Year Award believes thatone of the foundations of any anti ageing routine should be the Non-SurgicalFaceli treatment. is treatment offers the clients at Senses a multitude ofanti ageing benefits from muscle liing and toning, to boosting collagen andelastin production. Suzie explains, "It's most certainly our most populartreatment because it's not just about the muscular li, it's about the skin too.Everybody who tries this treatments feels and sees an improvement in theageing of their skin and that’s something that we're really proud of ' but Suziealso warns, "it isn't just about the treatment, it's about your therapist too. It'simperative that your therapist knows and understands your skin completelyotherwise it can be hard to reach your skin care goals.
Our thoroughconsultations ensurethat we really get tounderstand our client'sskin and thiscontributes greatly tothe success of anytreatment." eNon-Surgical Faceli ison offer at Senses... SkinCare Centre for thewhole of April, soexperience this greatfacial for only £25.00and you’ll get a fullconsultation too.Senses... Skin CareCentre, Alfreton 01773 835866
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Right top:New! Health and Fitness Consultant based in Alfreton,Derbyshire offering personal training sessions for both males andfemales of any age. Tim Melbourne – PT is offering you the chanceto win 10 personal training sessions at the studio worth £300(closing date 30th April 2013).All you have to do is find him on Facebook Tim Melbourne –Health & Fitness Consultant or email him explaining why youneed to win the prize, remember to include your name & number.Tim specialises in fat loss and creating lean, healthy and athleticphysiques, offering 1-2-1 sessions, at home training, small groupsand fitness camps. Search Facebook, to find free tips and advice onhealth, fitness and nutrition. Tim Melbourne PT – Health &Fitness Consultant Fitness Studio – 07780336842 –[email protected]
Right bottom:Frox Derbyshire’s Premier Dress Agency host their annual CharityLadies Evening & Fashion Show on Monday the 15th April at theVillage Hotel, Chilwell. This hugely popular event offers thediscerning shopper a chance to see first hand a fabulous range ofsecond hand designer brands, along with great accessoriesincluding shoes, handbags and jewellery. There are a few ticketsleft and it’s well worth attending! Contact Frox for more detailson 01332 875572 www.froxshop.com
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The stimulation of thedermis by the acousticwave causes the body toincrease its productionof collagen, firming andincreasing the elasticityof the skin, removingthread veins, stretchmarks and scarring.The process iscompletely safe, doesnot include the use ofradio waves or lasersand is endorsed by theAssociation ofCosmetic Surgeons asthe most effective andinexpensive way toreduce unsightlycellulite.
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For the first time in the company's history extending back over
more than 45 years, Mercedes-Benz's performance brand is
offering a fascinating high-performance vehicle in the compact
class. The A 45 AMG is representative of the ‘AMG Performance
50’ strategy for the future, which is to run up to the 50th birthday
of Mercedes-AMG GmbH in 2017. With a maximum output of
360 hp and up to 450 Newton metres of torque, the AMG 2.0-litre
four-cylinder turbo engine is the most powerful series production
four-cylinder engine in the world. The sensational power density
of 181 hp outstrips even the most powerful super sports cars. At
the same time, the engine also boasts supreme efficiency and
complies with the EU6 emissions standard.The A 45 AMG also
leads its segment in terms of fuel consumption, returning 40.9
mpg in NEDC combined mode. These credentials indicate that a
further high-performing member of the BlueDIRECT family is now
taking to the road. The performance-oriented AMG 4MATIC
all-wheel drive onboard the A 45 AMG sets new standards in the
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Two figures show that the A 45 AMG holds pole position in its
displacement segment: the newly developed AMG 2.0-litre turbo
engine is the most powerful series production four-cylinder turbo
engine in the world. A maximum output of 360 hp and up to 450
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The power density of 181 hp is also absolutely unrivalled. In this
discipline, the new AMG high-performance turbo engine even
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The high power and torque output and the combination with the
performance-oriented AMG 4MATIC all-wheel drive lead to
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zero to 62 mph in 4.6 seconds, while its top speed stands at 155
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