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Spring Blossom Near Ticknallby Steven Mcloughlin
Country YO 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
March 2012 North Edition
Derbyshire Alabaster Improve your home with confidence A soft touch
Read Country Images on-line at www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk
Talk on life - I’m sorry I’ll say that again - again! The Smythson Architectural Dynasty. Bakewell - Historic Market Town.
Furlong - From a Cart-road. Gardening in March. A Two Valleys Walk Around Longnor. The Gallery.
Lost Derbyshire Houses - Old Markeaton Hall. Fashion - A Fresh Start. Caravans and Motorhomes.
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During the Tudor era when times
were more settled, wealthy
landowners moved away from the
inconvenience of castles and into
grand houses where they could
live in greater comfort and safely
flaunt their status. Alongside this
came the need to employ the skills
of professional architects.
Brian Spencer follows the careers of three
generations of Smythsons, who over a mere
seventy years designed many of the stately
Tudor mansions in and around our district.
Every era has its famed architects. Moving backwards in time,
Norman Foster Associates have been responsible for much of the
city of London’s modern skyline. Here are buildings so innovative
that they are better known by affectionate nick-names, such as the
Gherkin and the Shard. Sir Basil Spence rebuilt Coventry
Cathedral by incorporating the blitzed ruins alongside his modern
version. George Gilbert Scott designed the glorious Victorian
hotel alongside St Pancras Station which is now restored thanks to
the likes of the poet Sir John Betjeman; but no other building
other than Charles Berry’s Houses of Parliament can convey the
Imperial pride of that same era. It was Nash who designed and
built the graceful curves of his Regency terraces, but surpassing
them all is Sir Christopher Wren whose memorial in St Paul’s, his
masterpiece, states ‘Reader if you seek his memorial, look about
you’.
All the architects from Wren to Norman Foster owe their
professional ancestry to Tudor and Jacobean architects who were
probably far more innovative than anyone coming later. With the
move away from castles and fortified mansions, architects were
able to express the mood of the time. Instead of gloomy rooms lit
only by draughty arrow slits, huge windows of expensive glass
created light airy rooms that were still easy to keep warm even on
the coldest days. However, no doubt due to some conservative
quirk of the owner, almost all grand houses built in Tudor times
had the semblance of towers on their corners just as with castles,
but without any military purpose. It was into this opportunity that
the Smythsons stepped.
Robert Smythson the founding father of the architectural dynasty
began his working career as a stone mason and by 1568 had risen
to the position of master mason whilst working on the building of
Longleat House in Wiltshire. Although there is no record of using
his developing architectural skills, it is pretty certain that he
THE SMYTHSONARCHITECTURAL
DYNASTY
Left: John Smythson designed the Hunting Tower
above Chatsworth.
Above: Hardwick Old Hall was built to Robert
Smythson’s design by extending a smaller place.
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Wollaton Hall, Robert Smythson’s masterpiece
became involved with Longleat’s design as building progressed.
Certainly his name was beginning to be known throughout the
country because in the 1570s he was invited by the Earl of
Shrewsbury to design and build Worksop Manor of which only
the lodge remains, converted into a public house of distinction,
and Thorpe Salvin in south Yorkshire (still privately owned).
Following these commissions he oversaw the building of
Wollaton Hall near Nottingham.
Wollaton Hall is an important house nationally because rather
than be built on the income from landowning; it was one of the
first great mansions to be built purely out of industrial profits. Sir
Francis Willoughby, the owner of Wollaton, was fortunate in
owning land beneath which lay vast amounts of coal. Alongside
his colliery interests, Sir Francis owned an iron works,
manufactured glass and grew woad, still an important dyestuff;
making him extremely wealthy. In 1580 he appointed Robert
Smythson as surveyor and architect, with a final budget of £8000
– a huge amount in those days – to build the flamboyant mansion
standing on its hill-top outside Nottingham.
It was during the building of Wollaton that Robert Smythson is
first recorded as an architect; in fact the earliest record of anyone
in the profession. His name must have rapidly become known
amongst the wealthy classes, especially the Countess of
Shrewsbury, better known as ‘Bess of Hardwick’. An imperious
woman, after quarrelling with the fourth and richest of four
wealthy husbands Bess contracted Smythson to rebuild and
extend what became known as Hardwick Old Hall (English
Heritage), her birthplace. Originally it was quite a small place,
more a large farmhouse than manor, but somehow or other she
was not satisfied and only lived in it for a few years during which
her masterpiece opposite was built and the old left to decay.
Hardwick New Hall (National Trust), both inside and out was
Bess and Robert Smythson’s joint masterpiece. Not for nothing is
it called ‘More Glass than Wall’ and the cost of the glass alone
must have been astronomical; no wonder the poor Earl was in
despair. It was around this time in the late 1580s that Robert’s
Below: All three Smythsons were involved with the
design of Bolsover Castle at one time or another.
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son John Smythson joined his father and the two worked together,
not only on Hardwick New Hall, but on Barlborough Hall
(private), for Sir Francis Rhodes and the four-storey Hunting Tower
above Chatsworth (private, but can be readily be viewed from the
exterior).
Building Hardwick New Hall was certainly the Smythson’s
highest achievement. Designed to reflect Bess’s wealth and
status, the architects were able to extravagantly fulfil her every
whim, from the six imposing towers toped by the initials E S
(Elizabeth Shrewsbury), to the vast array of windows. Some of the
windows are false, built to conceal chimney pieces, while others
appearing to illuminate only one room, in fact let light in on two
storeys. Almost perfectly symmetrical, the arrangement of state
rooms is perfect for a woman who commanded instant respect.
Not content to allow Hardwick to be her lasting memorial and
demanding perfection in everything, Bess had John Smythson
design her monument a good six years before her death in 1607;
life sized and full coloured, it is set in the south chancel wall of
All Saints’ Cathedral, Derby. Unusual for its time, Hardwick Hall
does not have its own chapel, but instead Bess had a church built
nearby at Ault Hucknall. In it is a monument to the first Countess
of Devonshire which was designed by John Smythson. There is
also a black slab marking the burial place of Thomas Hobbes,
political philosopher in the seventeenth century, who tutored Sir
William Cavendish at Chatsworth and who died at Hardwick.
It was during the time when Huntington Smythson, the third
architect in the dynasty, joined the firm that the delightful little
hunting lodge of North Lees Hall was built. Featuring in
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, as Moor House where the Rivers
sisters lived, it is leased by the Vivat Trust from the Peak District
National Park and is available for holiday accommodation.
The three men continued to work together until 1614 when
Robert died, but not before overseeing the completion of Burton
Agnes Hall in East Yorkshire the plans of which, some of the
oldest, are preserved in the Royal Institute of British Architects
(RIBA) collection. It was during this time that John and then
Huntington went on to create their joint masterpiece. This was
Bolsover Castle the fanciful seventeenth century adaptation by Sir
Charles Cavendish of a Norman castle built by William Peveril,
one of the Conqueror’s knights. True to the traditions of his
mother Bess of Hardwick, Sir Charles spent a fortune building
what became a pleasure palace with an enclosed private garden
complete with secluded arbours. Known as the Little Castle, Sir
Charles was able to entertain guests in an apartment block known
as the Terrace, where King Charles I later stayed. Less frivolously
Sir Charles had a riding school built by Huntingdon Smythson.
This is the first block on the left when entering Bolsover Castle
grounds and is where Sir Charles honed the skills of exhibition
horsemanship in an indoor arena that is still used for Riding for
the Disabled.
It is even possible that all three Smythsons were involved in
building Bolsover Castle and certainly John was there, for
according to the parish register he was buried in the nearby Parish
Church in 1634. Huntingdon died in 1648 and is also
commemorated with an epitaph in the same church, but his
grandfather Robert’s memorial is in Wollaton church close to his
home. So ended a dynasty that flourished at a time when
England’s prosperity was at an all time high.
Above: Hardwick Hall, Bess of
Hardwick’s masterpiece. Below: She
employed John Smythson to design her
memorial a good six years before her
death in 1607. It is set in the South
Chancel wall of Derby Cathedral.
Wollaton Hall - Robert Smythson’s masterpiece.
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Local alabaster, sometimes creamy white but more commonly
with a rusty stain, is found in the Trent Valley, especially the
Derbyshire section as well as in the Soar into Leicestershire. It is
also obtained from the same geological horizon, from quarries
near Tutbury, at Fauld and at Weston, all in Staffordshire. It is
usually referred to as Chellaston Alabaster, being the place from
which it was most prolifically quarried until the 1960s, when the
surviving pit was heedlessly used as a landfill site by the County
Council.
The first use of local alabaster was in the later Middle Ages, when
it was extensively employed in the fashioning of effigies for
monumental tombs in churches. There was a school of carvers of
church monuments in Nottingham and a very important one at
Burton upon Trent which probably owed its origin to the
patronage of Burton Abbey.
From the 16th century, it began to be used for more decorative
purposes and a surviving monumental chimneypiece from
Kenilworth Castle is an example of very early secular use. It
continued to be popular for chimneypieces through to the
Regency period and good examples attributable to an architect or
known craftsman can fetch five-figure sums. Thrumpton Hall has
two excellent ones and there’s a very late one at Aston Hall,
although there are surprisingly none I know of in Derby itself.
Thrumpton, just inside Nottinghamshire and on the southern bank
of the Trent, sits just on the flanks of Red Hill at Ratcliffe-on-Soar,
which was the source of the alabaster used by Robert Adam for
the columns of the Marble Hall at Kedleston, a job supervised by
Derby architect Joseph Pickford, a friend of Adam’s. There are
window architraves made from it at Kedleston too and door-cases
at Chatsworth from c.1695.
The most spectacular use of local alabaster is of course in the
entrance hall at Holkham, North Norfolk. The space is apsidal
and one enters to be confronted with a giant peristyle of 18 Ionic
columns, rising from a monumental plinth embellished with a
frieze of a Vitruvian scroll in white Carara marble on Ashford
Black above a similar one sporting a Greek key pattern. This
Having opened this series of
articles about antiques with
something about Ashford Black
Marble, I felt constrained – and
prompted by a couple of calls from
readers – to keep the momentum
going when it came to items
fashioned from local stones.
Maxwell Craven
DerbyshireAlabasterFrom the breathtaking
to the car boot bargain!
Above: Holkham
Hall - the entrance
hall [Holkham Hall
Trustees]
Left: 1950s
thermometer in
cheap alabaster case
- £2 from a car boot
[Carole Craven]
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colonnade rises to an entablature and frieze, from
which springs a magnificent coved and coffered
ceiling. The entire space, the work of architect
William Kent, is a breathtaking tour de force of
alabaster. There is more in the chapel and the game
larder there too.
The Earl of Leicester who commissioned the house
employed Kent, who in turn used Joseph Pickford the
homonymous uncle of the future Derby architect as
contractor and it was the nephew who was sent over
to Fauld Quarry in Staffordshire – site of the
catastrophic World War Two ammunition dump
explosion – to choose the alabaster and supervise its
cutting. The Earl owned another estate at Longford in
Derbyshire and here Pickford met and married Miss
Wilkins, the agent’s daughter and got his first
independent job, designing the stable block
(1761-62).
Yet for the collector, all these monumental uses of
alabaster are out of reach bar the occasional
chimneypiece or fragment from a Medieval
monument. At the same time that domestic objects
were being carved from Black Marble and Blue John,
the Derby spar manufacturer Richard Brown
(1735-1816) was carving obelisks, urns, clock cases
and other portable objects from alabaster extracted
from Chellaston. Indeed the local people of the village
later had their own cottage industry, carving small
portable objects from it too, the sale of which helped
eke out their modest wages. It is these that one meets
most commonly for sale.
Commissioned pieces and domestic souvenirs
Above left: Pair of late Regency Urns bought for £40 [Carole Craven]
Above right: R G Lomas angel in All Saints’, Mackworth, illuminated from
behind. [Don Farnsworth]
Below: Monumental urn of Staffordshire alabaster [Peter Hone Ltd]
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Brown also carved chimneypieces and he and many of the other
spar turners who sprang up in the 19th century made domestic
objects galore, although many were of indifferent quality. The
souvenir trade from various seaside resorts also led to an increase
in the production of alabaster picture frames, boxes, dressing table
sets, thermometers and so on.
Brown’s ultimate successor, R G Lomas of King Street in Derby,
was a real virtuoso in carving alabaster and the astonishing array
of items made from the material which embellish All Saints’
church in Mackworth is a testimony to his skill and almost
over-elaborate style. His firm also made a huge variety of church
furnishings including pulpits, altars and reredoses, being kept
afloat in the dog days after the Great War making alabaster war
memorials. Lomas also produced extravagantly carved urns,
comports and sconces, several of which passed through Bamford’s
whilst I worked there, fetching quite affordable prices, too –
probably because they are not to everyone’s taste and also
because alabaster, being a soft stone, is vulnerable to having
pieces knocked off easily.
After R G Lomas finally went out of business in the Great
Depression in 1932, the making of simple alabaster ornaments
continued as a cottage industry until the 1950s after which, with
no more of the mineral being extracted, it faded away.
It is still possible to buy simple ornaments like pots, book-ends,
and so on for a pound or two at car boots, but the better quality
items are more expensive although not unduly so. Not everyone
likes the colour and staining of local alabaster, which keeps prices
down and some of Lomas’s urns are so over the top as to lose their
appeal. Yet any 18th century or Regency item will command a
premium and here prices do go well into the hundred of pounds
and more too if the object is of sufficient quality. A pair of early
Victorian alabaster urnular candle sconces on plinths will be
offered for sale at Bamford’s next Fine Art sale 14th-16th March.
Yet, generally speaking alabaster objects are still well under-valued
and if well chosen can look really good in any domestic context.
Photographs on this page.
Top: C18th chimneypiece at Thrumpton Hall, Notts [M Craven]
Middle: R G Lomas urns sold at Bamfords 2010 [Bamfords Ltd]
Bottom: Willoughby monument, St. Chad, Great Wilne, of 1622
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separated by a long ridge, along which runs the airy
high-level road from Hulme End to Longnor. The latter
village where this walk begins has remained unchanged
for centuries. it sits on a high ledge above the River
Manifold, a focal point where in living memory farmers
brought their produce and animals for sale.
The market house with its scale of charges above the door overlooks a small
cobbled square; no longer used for its original purpose, the building now
houses a craft workshop and café. Longnor is one of those places where quiet
wandering down narrow alleys and back lanes often leads to the discovery of
delightful cottages and scenes. The village was once part of the Harpur-Crewe
estate, a fact highlighted by the name of one of the inns surrounding the
market square, which incidentally still uses the old version of the
unamalgamated family names, Crewe and Harpur. Although Longnor’s church
was rebuilt in the 18th century, it stands on foundations at least 800 years old.
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about 150yds (137m). Turn right at a footpath sign and go down
the lane towards Folds End Farm, bearing left through the
farmyard. Climb over a stone stile and turn half right to follow a
field path down to the River Manifold.
The renovated plaque above the market hall lists the tolls due to
the Harpur Crewe estate.
• At a footpath crossing, turn left on to a gravel path climbing up
to Overboothlow Farm. Keep left through the farmyard and then
bear right steeply uphill and right again and then left along a
rutted track. Follow this track through meadowland as far as the
ridge-top road.
About half way above the farm pause and get your breath back
and at the same time admire the broad sweep of the Manifold
Valley. The broad grassy shoulder beyond Longnor to your right
marks the boundary between gritstones and shales in the west and
Dovedale limestone further on to the right.
• Turn right along the road for about 500 yds (457m). Climb over
a stone stile on your left and then bear left steeply down three
fields. Turn right on reaching a track, following it down to Under
Whitle Farm. Go over a stile at the top of the farm garden to
follow a faint path around the property which is waymarked by
yellow waymark arrows; climb stiles crossing hedges and walls.
Continue along this path, going downhill until it reaches the River
dove. Turn left upstream, following waymarks along the riverbank.
A WALK in THE COUnTRySidE
THE WALK
The walk from Longnor
starts and finishes outside
the market house where
there is now a café.
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As you climb over the roadside stile, pause again but this time to
admire the valley of the Upper Dove. Grassy mounds to your
right in the valley bottom mark the site of a motte and bailey of
Pilsbury Castle where a landowner held sway in the 11th century.
• Go right to cross the river by a footbridge and bear left along a
track as far as a lane; turn and follow it into Crowdecote.
Crowdecote. The village is named after the Saxon settler Cruda
who built the first farm, or ‘cote’ on this spot. The Pack Horse Inn
is a welcome sight at any time. Along with a good supply of real
ales, the pub offers an extensive bar and table menu.
• Go to the right along the main road beyond the pub, then
almost immediately left along a side lane, leaving it at the last
farm buildings to follow a signposted grassy track through open
fields.
The sharp pointed hills to the north are reef knolls, the remains of
corals surrounding a prehistoric tropical lagoon of years ago.
• Reaching a walled grassy lane, turn sharp left to go down to the
river. Cross the river by a footbridge, and then climb the slight
rise to reach a shallow side valley.
• Turn left at a stone barn and continue forwards on a steadily
improving side road into the outskirts of Longnor. Bear right
along the back lanes and then to reach the market square.
A WALK in THE COUnTRySidE
details of the tolls for Longnor market
The walk conveniently passes the door of the Pack Horse at Crowdecote.
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Arctic InteriorsArctic Interiors is Anthony Hewkin, working in and aroundthe Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire area. Having workedfor several years designing and selling kitchens, bathrooms,bedrooms, studies and home offices for a high-end retailer,he decided it was time to go it alone.
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Derby Assembly Rooms, DerbyTheatre & Guildhall Theatre01332 255800March5 Collin Raye7 Peppa Pig's Treasure Hunt7-10 Gatepost Theatre Company: Footloose8-20 Moscow City Ballet & Orchestra:Romeo & Juliet and Swan Lake12 The Bootleg Beatles in Concert15 Verdi's La Traviata – An Ellen Kentproduction16-31 New Perpectives Theatre Company &Derby LIVE present: The Honey Man byTyrone Huggins16 The Australian Pink Floyd Show16 Kris Drever and Eamonn Coyne plusLady Maisery
17 Linda Cooper School of Dance: Gravity17 U2 UK17 An Evening of Burlesque20 Richard Herring: What is Love Anyway?20-24 Flying High 201222 Sally Morgan23 Nazareth – plus support: Juall23 Derby Jazz and Derby LIVE presentCourtney Pine: Europa26 Foursight Theatre present: Bette & Joan –The Final Curtain27 The Good Old Days of Music Hall 28-29 Science Museum, Live on Tour
Royal Centre Nottingham & ConcertHall 0115 989 5555www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.ukMarch3 Nottingham Youth Orchestra presents anOlympic Celebration. 5-10 Long Day's Journey Into Night7 Matt Cardle9 Sarah Millican10 The Dubliners11 The Australian Pink Floyd Show13-17 RSC - The Taming Of The Shrew13 Laura Marling16 McFly17 Nottingham Philharmonic OrchestraTchaikovsky's first piano concerto needs nointroduction. 21When You Wish Upon A Star presents 19 Tommy Fleming20 Joan Baez20-24 Sister Act23 The Hollies24 Dance East Midlands26-31Sister Act28 Nottingham Classics - sinfonia viVA30-31Nederlands Dans Theater 2
April2 Chris Rea3-7 Stomp - The British theatrical sensationthat has become a truly global phenomenon4 The Osmonds10-14 Doctor In The House - Do you need a prescription for laughter?Then here comes the cure as the classicBritish comedy, Doctor in the House, hitsthe stage.Follow the inexperienced young medicalstudent Simon Sparrow as he begins hisfive-year internship at St. Swithin's TeachingHospital. Continually running afoul of theirascible head surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt,his social life is spiced up when Sparrow istaken under the wings of two studentrepeaters, Tomy Grimsdyke and John Evans,with farcical consequences.Starring one of Britain's best-lovedfunnymen, Joe Pasquale, alongside star ofstage and screen, Robert Powell and withTom Butcher (BBC's Doctors) as John and
Emma Barton (Eastenders) as Vera, Doctorin the House has delighted audiences forgenerations. Refereed by award-winningdirector Ian Talbot, this is comedy at its verybest...the doctor will see you now!10-14 Grease16-21 Save the Last Dance For Me19 Hormonal Housewives23-28 Steel Magnolias
Lacemarket TheatreBox Office 0115 9507201March12-17 The RivalsWritten by Richard Brinsley SheridanDirected by Marcus WakelyMain theatre production starting at 7.30pmMatinée at 2.30pmIn this classic comedy, the celebs of the 18thcentury are taking the waters in fashionableBath. Come and see the rivals for the handof Lydia Languish. Meet the testy SirAnthony Absolute, the fiery Sir LuciusO'Trigger and not least the proverbial MrsMalaprop. April11-14 David Copperfield. Dickens wrote ofDavid Copperfield: 'Of all my books I likethis the best'. It tells the story of the trialsand tribulations that beset David as hegrows to adulthood, from his devotedmother and her ill advised marriage to MrMurdstone, to settling down with his ownwife. On the way we get to meet some ofliterature’s greatest characters; Miss BetsyTrotwood, Miss Murdstone, Creackle, thePeggoty family, the Micawbers and the oilyUriah Heep. A classic coming of age tale.
Nottingham Arena www.nottingham-arena.comMarch6 Florence and the Machine20 The Four Tops and The Temptations21 Harlem Globetrotters27 JLSApril2 Joe Bonamassa3 Diversity5 McCoy’s 2012 Premier League Darts11 Steps14 CBeebies Live! or the stars come out toplay – and not just the ones in the sky – butthe CBeebies Mega-Stars too! Get ready fora fantastic live stage show adventure, full offun, songs and games with your CBeebiesfriends, including Justin Fletcher, PC Plum,Andy Day and Katy Ashworth.Nottingham PlayhouseBox Office 0115 941 9419www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.ukMarch
10 Gang of Angels11 Lee Nelson Live 13-24 Romeo and Juliet26 BalletBoyz28-29 Peppa Pig’s Treasure Hunt - Ahoythere me hearties! Peppa Pig and her friendsare going on a treasure hunt and need yourhelp!Following the incredible sell-out success ofPeppa Pig’s Party, Peppa is back with a brandnew show featuring true to life puppets,perfect singalong songs and a new story thatwill charm and delight all her fans. Full sail!Ahoy! Arrrrr!31 Pagrav Dance CompanyApril3-7 Reasons to be Cheerful4 The Chuckle Brothers12-14 Woyzech17-May 5 Mary Shelley
Words DO come easily for DaveSpikeyAward-winning comedian Dave Spikey is setto entertain audiences next month when hebrings his critically acclaimed ‘Words Don’tCome Easy’ tour to the Mansfield PalaceTheatre. Of course anyone who has seenone of Dave’s live shows, or read hisbest-selling autobiography Under TheMicroscope, will know that words do comevery easily to the hugely popular comedian.
Inspired by the fantastic audience responseto his deconstruction of song lyrics in his‘Best Medicine Tour’ which was at the PalaceTheatre in March 2009 and his fascinationwith the vagaries of the English language, thishilarious new show examines many of life’ssituations where words really don’t comeeasy. These include tongue-tied parentsexplaining the facts of life, ridiculousnewspaper stories, magazine poems,adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospitalspeak, learning a foreign language and anextended selection of song lyrics that rangefrom the lazy through surreal to theridiculous. Throw in a ‘Champion the WonderHorse’ sing-a-long, ancient Abyssiniancontraception, rubbish school trips, epiduralanaesthesia and The Last Supper and youhave all the ingredients for a rich and spicycomedy casserole or as Dave would describeit “a sort of Lexicon-carne ............ sorry!”
Since winning the nation’s hearts as cabaretstar Jerry St Clair in Phoenix Nights, whichhe co-wrote with Peter Kay and NeilFitzmaurice, Double British Comedy Awardwinner Dave Spikey has been a regular onour TV screens as well as in theatres andcomedy clubs around the UK. Aside from
Phoenix Nights, Dave also wrote and starredin Dead Man Weds and Magnolia, hosted thenew series of the TV classic Bullseye and iscurrently one of the regular hosts of the TVBook Club on Channel 4.
Talking about his return to the Palace, Davesaid: I am proper looking forward toreturning to the Palace. I recorded my thirdDVD there and in all honesty I couldn’t havepicked a better theatre. On the night theaudience were absolutely fantastic whichlifted me to perform at the top of my game.So I’m hoping they’ll all come back with thatsame warmth, level of support andencouragement to enjoy my new show justas much.
Dave Spikey will be at the Mansfield PalaceTheatre on Friday 30 March @ 7.30pm.Tickets are £18.50 All Seats. Book yourtickets now at the Box Office on 01623633133, or online atwww.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre. Buxton Opera Housewww.buxtonoperahouse.orgMarch
2 Giselle 2 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - March(Pavilion Arts Centre)3 There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed AFly (Pavilion Arts Centre)3Swan Lake 2:30PM3 Swan Lake 3 Richard Herring (Pavilion Arts Centre)4 Jazz at the Arts Centre - The Yarrow RiverJazz Band (Pavilion Arts Centre)4 La Fille Mal Gardée 5 Gretchen Peters 6 Stewart Lee 7 The Solid Silver 60s Show 2012 8 Andy Abraham’s History of the Big Bands9 Tavaziva Dance – Sensual Africa 9-10 Thin Air (Pavilion Arts Centre Studio)10 Jackson – Live in Concert11 Puccini’s La Boheme 12 Joe Brown 13 Beanbag Stories - Out of this World(Pavilion Arts Centre)13-17 Yes, Prime Minister - DIRECT FROMTHE WEST END!Best New Comedy – What’s On StageFollowing two sell-out West End seasons,Yes, Prime Minister comes to Buxton OperaHouse for 1 week only.16 Letz Zep (Pavilion Arts Centre)18 Lord of the Flies19 Our Country’s Good 22-24 The Sound of Music 23 Buxton Soul Night (The Octagon,Pavilion Gardens)25 Jack Bruce & His Big Blues Band 26 Interface 12 27 Charlie Landsborough
28 Gilbert O’Sullivan29-31 Love’s Labour’s Lost 30-31The Government Inspector (PavilionArts Centre)April1Jazz at the Arts Centre - The JulianGregory Quartet (Pavilion Arts Centre)1Sesame Street Live – Elmo Makes Music!1Tideswell Male Voice Choir (Pavilion ArtsCentre)1An Audience with Pam Ayres 2The Ken Dodd Happiness Show 3The Bootleg Sixties - The Bootleg Sixties isa sight & sound show which takes you on anunforgettable 2-hour journey with thesongs, stars and images of pop’s greatestdecade. It stars The Overtures, one of thefinest exponents of 60s music in the worldtoday … end of story. They count Sir EltonJohn as a fan (he asked them to be the mainact at his star-studded wedding). TheOvertures are light years from being justanother covers band … what they bring tothe stage is a true representation of thepower and glory of the cream of 60s music.Featuring three screens, a lightshow, specialguests and of course, the fantasticOvertures, this show is a must for all 60sfans.4 Curtis Stigers 5 A Roo in my Suitcase (Pavilion ArtsCentre)5 Pure Brubeck 5 Wilko Johnson (Pavilion Arts Centre)6 The Rat Pack is Back!6Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - April (PavilionArts Centre)7Live/Wire 7-8 Double Vision (Pavilion Arts CentreStudio)8 Rainy Days & Mondays – The CarpentersStory9 Treasure Island 9 Simon Yates – The Wild Within 10 Hormonal Housewives 11The Ugly Duckling (Pavilion Arts CentreStudio)11The Hollies12 Beyond the Barricade 13 Recitals at the Arts Centre - VictoriaBarton (soprano) & Elgan Thomas (tenor)(Pavilion Arts Centre)13 The ELO Experience 13 Seann Walsh (Pavilion Arts Centre)14 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 14 Grimethorpe Colliery Band 15 In The Box 16 Shylock 17 Beanbag Stories - Farm Yard Fun (PavilionArts Centre)18 The Northern Soul Tour 2012 - AngeloStarr & The Team and Lorraine Silver 19 Are You Experienced? – The Jimi HendrixExperience
The Studio, No 2 The Galleries,New Lane, Alfreton.
01773 836907
u
Norma GentDerbyshire Artist
Pets, Portraits, Scenes, Still Life,Executive Caricatures, Victorian Life.
SPECIAL DAYWORKSHOP
Saturday 10th MarchWatercolour Classes Tuesday
mornings & evenings & every Thursday 9am - 10.45amSt Thomas’s Community Centre
Somercotes
Framing Now Available
galleryWith spring flowers gingerly popping up abovethe cold ground and daylight hourslengthening, the opportunities arise to putbrush to paper. Norma Gent holdswatercolour classes weekly and special dayworkshops once every 3 months withsomething for beginners to the moreexperienced. Visit Norma at her studio - 2 TheGalleries, New Lane, Alfreton.
Portrait and wildlife artist Nick Proctor invites you to enjoy a one day workshop at hisstudio in Alfreton. Learn techniques using pastel pencils and experience airbrushing acrylicbackgrounds. Ideal for the beginner or the more experienced. With only 4 people to eachworkshop, providing more individual attention, there are various days and dates available.Only £35 for the day 9am- 4pm, all materials provided and includes tea /coffee and biscuits.Come away with a finished painting, framing available while you wait.01773 831046 / 07715277501 www.nickproctor.co.uk [email protected]
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Nick ProctorPortrait and wildlife artist
Commissionswelcome, prices start from £95. One day
The Gallery is the display and sales area of Baslow Pottery. Theoriginal oak beams and stone walls of the 17th century farmhousemake a charming backdrop for the robust character of the handmadeceramics. The majority of the pots are intended to be functional -tableware (mugs, plates, casserole dishes, jugs etc) in high glazes, mattfinished frost resistant garden pots, ovenware, condiment sets, vasesand dishes of all kinds. In addition, several other local potters arerepresented, some of whom specialise in sculptural pieces. There arealso finely turned wood pieces made by a local craftsman. The stonewalls show a variety of original 2D art, water colours, oil, acrylic,mixed media and photographs. All the artists are well known locallyand have exhibited widely. Handmade jewellery in silver, gold, fusedglass and crystal is also for sale, made by local craftspeople, these areunique items, individually made.Ivy House, Nether End, Baslow, Derbyshire DE45 1SR T: 01246583838 www.baslowpottery.co.uk
Leabrooks Gallery features a wide variety of highly skilledartists every month using oils, acrylics, mixed media,watercolour, textiles and stained glass, jewellers using silver,semi-precious stones, enamel, recycled materials and wool andsculptors using a range of metals, shown throughout theGallery and Interiors section – offering a range of pottery.
From the 3rd-30th March, the work of Craig Hand ishighlighted. His land, seascapes and rural studies presentevocative and familiar images in a style which is immediatelyappealing to the viewer. www.leabrooksgallery.co.uk
Steve Mcloughlin Exhibition 22nd April – 6th May 2012
Steven began painting professionally atthe age of 21 working commercially forpublishers and clients.
A self taught artist Steven worksprimarily in oils developing the finishedpieces from sketches and photographstaken on location. The British coastlineand countryside has been Steven’sinspiration for many years, taking himfrom Derbyshire where he lives to theeast coast of Norfolk down to Cornwall.For more information regarding theexhibition please contact Gill Watson07980 332873 or 01332 865995. [email protected] or visitwww.ingleby-gallery.co.uk
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Murray Hallam, the owner and Kate Taylor, the manageresshave decided to retire from the knitting and needleworkshop in Ripley. The decision came after much deliberationand soul searching, such has been the enjoymentexperienced over the past 37 years in serving and lookingafter the needs of their numerous customers, many ofwhom have become good friends.
Both Murray and Kate enjoy reasonably good health andso wish to have time to be able to pursue other activitiesand to do some travelling too. They also wish to have moretime to spend with family and friends, some of whom havebeen neglected over the years
Murray is looking for a new owner to build on the happyrelationship the shop has with its customers and continuethe ongoing success of the business. Both Murray andKate appreciate the good will of their customers, old andnew and thank them for their custom over the years. Therewill be many happy memories to look back on.
Murray can be contacted on 01773 745824.U-duit and The Wool Shop, Church Street, Ripley,Derbyshire.
Murray and Kate
call it a day at
U-duit!They are looking for new
owners to continue thebusiness.
Upcoming Events at Denby Visitor Centre
Tickets are now on sale for two special CookeryDemonstrations by TV Chef James Martin on Sunday6th May.
James attracts large and enthusiastic audiences every time he visitsDenby, and this May promises to be no exception! Thedemonstrations will be held in a large marquee in the grounds, withnew recipes and book signing for ticket holders immediately after eachdemonstration. Tickets are £15 per demonstration – available atDenby Visitor Centre Reception, or by calling 01773 740 799. Earlybooking is advised.
On Easter Sunday at Denby there will be a special Easter ClearanceMarquee packed full of home and pottery bargains. Enjoy a carvery inBourne’s (12pm to 3pm) and kids can enter the Easter BonnetCompetition at 1.30pm – and join inthe Easter Egg Hunt at 2pm with lotsof prizes. Plus try the familyCraftroom Tour and make a clay bunnysouvenir to keep.
For details of all events and offers atDenby seewww.denbyvisitorcentre.co.ukDenby Visitor Centre, Denby,Derbyshire DE5 8NX. Open dailywith free centre entry and parking.
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Very Special Specials at The Excavator
The huge success Pub People Company have had since taking the
helm at The Excavator in Ambergate near Ripley, means the
kitchen has needed to not only meet the demand of the
customers but also the expectations. The pub has managed to do
both by reinventing their specials board on a regular basis, with
the intention being to give customers a new menu each visit.
The popular specials board changes to keep you coming back and it'sall thanks to imaginative and innovative dishes dreamed up by DaveOwens and his kitchen team.
“A focus this winter has been on the fantastic new vegetarian dishesthat are coming through at the minute and becoming more and morepopular, not just with vegetarians." Dave says "We've also always beenknown for a great steak and we still offer a great range of grilledDerbyshire beef, including the brand new introduction of a great value8oz fillet steak!"
So, with an already established Sunday lunch to die for, a mid-weekafternoon value menu and now a specials board worth travelling for,what is in store next at The Excavator? Well, to find that out you’llsimply have to keep visiting the pub and dining room which is easy tofind, located on the A610 close to junction 28 of the Ml, the Ripleyjunction of the A38 and 10 minutes from Derby.
Bookings are now being taken for Mother’s Day and Easter Weekend.Booking in advance is recommended at the weekends, call 01773 744400
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Din
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ceThis was our first dining
experience at The Devonshire
Arms at Baslow, so after a forty
minute trip on a cold February
evening with snow on the
ground, we were grateful for a
warm welcome and the sight of
log fires blazing when we arrived!
New owner and chef, David Balderstone,
welcomed us on our arrival into the
restaurant. He offered us the opportunity
of sitting wherever we preferred, so we
immediately chose a table beside one of
the log burning stoves, then proceeded to
admire our surroundings.
The hotel and restaurant is set in the heart
of the Peak District, on the fringe of
Chatsworth House and close to Bakewell,
so very convenient for those who wish to
stay a little longer and enjoy walking with
breathtaking views of the Peak District, or
browsing a good choice of individual and
interesting shops in the local area.
Inside, The Devonshire Arms has a
balanced combination of
traditional and contemporary features,
with soft lighting and music to add to the
atmosphere, which was very relaxing.
The menu offers ‘great food and great
value’, with all food freshly prepared and
cooked to order by either David, or sous
chef, Ollie.
We were both quite hungry and soon
made our choices for starters and mains
whilst sipping our drinks. My partner
chose chicken liver paté with homemade
red onion marmalade, cured with brandy
and madeira, served with toast. The paté
was smooth and with the addition of the
marmalade, offered plenty of nice
flavours to start the meal.
I decided on the Thai spiced crab fish
cakes, served with a chilli dip and a petit
leaf salad, which when presented to me
looked and also tasted very delightful!
David had just recently chosen a new
seasonal menu, with the starters priced
from £3.95 to £5.50, with the additional
bread selection served with virgin olive
oil and balsamic vinegar priced at £3.50.
The main dishes range from £7.95 to
£11.95, and I thought offered a good
variety of choices to suit all taste buds,
diets and budgets; just as the menu
states, ‘great food, great value’.
After chatting briefly with David, our
main courses soon arrived; sea bass and
ginger fish cakes stacked on top of
oriental
noodles, finished with coconut foam for
my partner. This he said was a delicious
combination of sweet and tangy flavours
and soft textures – an excellent choice for
someone who loves fish dishes!
I selected the vegetarian option; a wild
mushroom risotto, with pecorino and
dressed with rocket salad, which was
very flavoursome, cooked to perfection
and I can honestly say, one of the best
risottos I have ever tasted!
Following our main meals, we were
presented with the dessert menu board
and being conscious of watching my
figure, I was delighted to see sorbets on
offer, so immediately chose the lemon
flavour, whilst my partner was a little
more adventurous, selecting a chocolate
mousse topped with chocolate shavings.
Both desserts were beautifully presented.
The lemon sorbet
delicately dressed with mint leaves and
fresh lemon, with an Amaretto biscuit at
the side of the serving dish. This choice of
dessert was perfect for me to finish my
meal; not too heavy and with the citrus
flavour being just right.
The tempting chocolate mousse was
topped with a walnut, then scattered with
chocolate, nougat and caramel shavings
– sweet and delightful!
Our evening at The Devonshire Arms had
been very pleasant and we wish to thank
David and his staff for making us feel
very relaxed and ‘at home’!
Nether End, Baslow, Derbyshire
DE45 1SR T: 01246 582551
The Devonshire Arms
“...balanced combination of features”
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ThE vERY BEST oF EAST & WEST
Take Away Service (Free delivery within 5 miles, minimum order £20)
Open: Monday-Saturday 5pm-11pm, Sunday 12pm-9pm. Free car park
The Farmhouse (formerly The Yew Tree) in Brinsley located on the A608 Cordy Lane.
SpecialsMonday & Tuesday Indian Buffet £8.95 –
eat as much as you likeMonday to Friday 2 for £10 on selected English meals
Sunday Roast 2 for £10
A warm welcome awaits you at The Farmhouse
English & Indian Sizzler Restaurant & Bar.
Offering the best of both worldsThe Farmhouse offers a full English & Indian menu, indulging desserts
plus a range of coffees or you can simply join us for a social drink!
Mother’s Day 18th MarchJoin us for a Mothering Sunday special treat!
51, Cordy Lane, Brinsley, Nottingham NG16 5BY
01773 768641 www.thefarmhouserestaurant.co.uk
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A warm welcome awaits you at
e Devonshire Arms at Baslow
GREAT FOOD GREAT VALUE
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300g arborio rice5 leeksLarge pat butter, plus a little extra50g parmesan100g fontina 1 glass red wine
For the stock:Parsley stalks1 carrot2 leeks1 potato2 sticks celeryPeppercorns1 small onion Bay leaf
Method
1. First make your stock. The exactrecipe depends on what is in yourcupboard. Don't use too muchpotato, the stock needs to be veryclear.2. Cook half the leeks in the butter,cooking slowly until they aretranslucent. Place the other half ina saucepan with a little butter andcook until caramelised. Remove
the caramelised leeks and setaside.3. In the pan with the translucentleeks, turn up the heat and add therice. Stir for 1 minute for the rice toabsorb the flavour, then add half aglass of red wine. Then add thewarm stock, bit by bit, until the riceis almost cooked. 4. Add the rest of the wine and thecaramelised leeks, reserving someto sprinkle on the top. Keep theheat on until the rice is ’al dente’,ie. not over-cooked, but still with alittle bite. Add a small knob ofbutter and the cheese.5. To serve, top with the remainingleeks. Serve sprinkled withparmesan.
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DERBYSHIRE
HOUSES
OldMarkeatonHall, Derbyby Maxwell Craven
The estate of Markeaton was in the
hands of the Earl of Chester when
the Domesday Book was written in
1086 and was tenanted from him
by Goscelin, one of his senior
retainers. Yet it would seem that
before 1073, when the Earl
involved himself in an act of
disloyalty to the Conqueror, his
possessions in Derbyshire were
very considerably greater.
Thereafter, Markeaton,
Mackworth, Allestree and part of
Kniveton were all he was left with.
Goscelin’s family, the Touchets, built the first
house on the estate, for it is mentioned in deeds in
the early 12th century. A church and priest at
Markeaton were recorded in the Domesday Book,
yet no mention of either appears subsequently,
suggesting that it was a domestic chapel (and thus
implying the existence of a residence). By 1200
the church at Mackworth alone is mentioned in
the charters of Darley Abbey and the supposition
is that the original church had became a domestic
Above:
Detail of the hall from the
bird’s eye view of the old
house in 1753. [Derby
Museums]
Right:
The new house; Markeaton
Hall, the seat of William
Mundy MP
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chapel attached to the Touchets’ house and a fresh church to serve the
estate had been founded at Mackworth, with its patronage given to
the Abbey which immediately rented it back to the Touchets.
Later, in 1405, the Touchets inherited the barony of Audley of Heleigh
(in Cheshire) but after that it all went a bit downhill for them. The 7th
Lord Audley fought for Richard III at Bosworth but was later executed
for putting himself at the head of the so called Cornish Insurrection,
he was captured at the Battle of Blackheath on the outskirts of
London. The family sold up in 1516 and moved to Ireland where they
were later created Earls of Castlehaven, but the 2nd Earl disgraced
himself by involvement in the sort of scandal which would have kept
the late lamented News of the World in self-righteous headlines for
weeks and was consequently executed.
The Derbyshire estates centred on Markeaton were purchased by an
ex-Sheriff of London, Sir John Mundy of Checkendon in Oxfordshire,
who had made his fortune as a goldsmith. In 1522 he went on to
become Lord Mayor of the City. Fuller’s Worthies states that he was
the son of William Mundy of High Wycombe in Bucks, but the family
actually claimed a Derbyshire descent, albeit one that is in detail hard
to authenticate, but an estate at Alstonefield in Staffordshire held by
Sir John’s son Vincent seems to have been held over a century before
by a Mundy.
Mundy built a new house, probably c1522-24, partly timber-framed,
but on a stone plinth with a multi-gabled two storey façade, above
which rose a tall central feature topped by three steep gables and
clustered chimneys. This would have occupied the space where in a
more conventional house an inner courtyard would have been.
Although Melbury in Dorset is a slightly later contemporary (and
perhaps slightly more sophisticated) example of a very similar house,
old Markeaton nevertheless does constitute one of the precursors of
the later Elizabethan mania in the East Midlands for building
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unusually tall houses which reached its apogee with houses
such as Wollaton Hall and Worksop Manor (the latter long
destroyed) in Nottinghamshire and of course, Hardwick.
The house stood behind a very expansive courtyard of
timber framed offices, outbuildings and stables ranged
round three sides, the house forming the fourth, but set back
somewhat and surrounded by a wall punctuated by three
impressive gates which may have been later additions.
Much of the west side of the stable/offices range was built
on a stone plinth punctuated by buttresses executed with
carved details. A branch of the Markeaton Brook ran
through the north range of this courtyard and was probably
so diverted a considerable time before in order to act as a
freshwater supply and drain to the stable range.
We know all this because an unknown artist drew a bird’s
eye view of the old house in 1753, just before Sir John
Mundy’s descendant Wrightson, having inherited estates in
Leicestershire, resolved to have it demolished and replaced
by the house (also demolished) that many of the older
generation in Derby will recall. This is immensely valuable
as a record of a long lost and architecturally important
mansion and is in the safe hands of Derby Museum along
with plans and elevations of the replacement house, all
appearing to date from 1753. The likelihood is therefore,
that the drawing of the old house is by James Denstone, the
LOST DERBYSHIRE HOUSES
Old Markeaton Hall, Derby
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man who seems to have designed the later house, which
was completed in 1755.
We can also derive more information about the old mansion
from a series on inventories from the 17th century and from
the hearth tax return of 1662 in which the house was taxed
on 11 hearths, suggesting that despite its appearance in the
drawing it must have been a fairly compact edifice. The best
inventory is that drawn up following the death of Edward
Mundy in 1607, in which he left property assessed at nearly
£1,000. This mentions the Great Chamber, two other
chambers, three ‘halls’, three other rooms, a brew-house
and stables, William Woolley in 1713 described it as ‘an
ancient seat’, which hardly tells us much we didn’t know.
Needless to say, little is left of the house today. A rather
battered stone pinnacle from it survives as a park feature,
and the buttressed stone plinth that supported the stable
block survives underneath the rather mauled remains of the
hunting stables built for F N C Mundy by Joseph Pickford in
c.1772 on the NW corner of the present structure. Beyond
that there is nothing; everything else was swept away for
Denstone’s new house, for Pickford’s stable block and
William Emes’s 115 acre park, not to mention the site’s
municipalisation in the years subsequent to 1929 when the
last Mrs Mundy, Emily Georgiana, left it to the Council.
Top left: NW angle of the stable block
shewing the buttressed stone wall
surviving from the previous stable range
[M Craven]
Middle left: The new hall in its heyday.
Bottom left: Melbury in Dorset, from the
lake, built 1536-1538. Note the tower
rising through the centre of the house
[M Craven]
Top right: The bird’s eye view of 1753
[Derby Museums]
Above: The surviving orangery from the
new hall
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If buying is too much of an outlay then there are companies aroundthat rent motorhomes and caravans for weekly periods. This obviouslyreduces the outlay but still gives you the opportunity to enjoy theoutdoor life. Remember though, if you are hiring a caravan, you willneed to check that your current vehicle is capable of towing it.
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Hot on the heels of the trend setting Challenger and
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