Rural Voice - Darley Dale & Villages Edition - January 2021

VOICE JANUARY ‘21

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Yesss, we made it to 2021! Although I suspect many of us are battle scarred from 2020.

As I write (pre-Christmas), it’s all feeling very uncertain again in terms of who to have round for Christmas dinner, numbers going up, we’re still in tier 3, what it means for January, will there be another lock-down, what impact will Brexit have and many more questions. However, if there is one thing we have learnt this year it’s how resilient we can be. When it comes to it, we get on with it and make the best of it. Now I’m not saying that it is necessarily going to be fantastically better than 2020 but we have a vaccine and therefore we have hope, which many of us felt bereft of last year!

So, with that in mind, I’ve taken all my plans for 2020 that weren’t realised, re-assessed them and rolled forward those which remained!

If nothing else, 2020 really has made us take stock of the important things and for that alone, I will be grateful.

With that in mind, we thought that Brew Monday is a fantastic initiative that the Samaritans are raising awareness of. It will kick off on 18 January, the third Monday in January, which is usually known as ‘Blue Monday’ and the idea is the Samaritans are turning this day on its head and into something positive by encouraging people to get together over a warming virtual cuppa.

Christmas was a disappointment for many us not being able to get together and January can be a very difficult month for so many.

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tea, just taking time to really listen to another person could help them work through what’s on their mind. ​ Because now more than ever, sharing a cuppa is more than a drink – it’s about reaching out, checking in and staying connected.

In other news, I am ridiculously hopeful that this is the year that we can bring you your events and clubs/community info back….. fingers crossed and we’re looking forward to it!

You may also notice a little minor facelift on the front cover; our logo! It’s good to freshen things up sometimes, as you know we’re always looking to bring new things to your Voice Magazines. Fingers crossed that this year is the year of the website – I get nagged daily and I can feel it in my water…..it’s been in the pipeline since 2018 and this is the year…..I can feel it!!!!

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2020 – what a year!

Whether we look back in anger, regret and with a sense of loss; or with a more positive slant is entirely down to us as individuals. The year itself seems to have flown by, despite the lengthy period we all spent in effective isolation from the end of March onwards.

Many of us, myself included, lost people we love. In my case both parents within 6 weeks of each other, just before lockdown part 1. Neither were COVID related, a fact for which I am extremely grateful.

Jobs have been lost, and doubtless more people will face the upheaval of redundancy in 2021. Many of us have had to adapt to working from home. Some having to juggle home schooling with a full workload.

But what have we all learned?

Top of the list has to be that we are VERY lucky in the UK to have a National Health Service and that we MUST fight to protect it anyway we can. When you look across to the US and see the death toll from COVID, it makes you realises that we could have been in a similar mess if we didn’t all have FREE access to healthcare.

I would add the return to feeling a sense of community with our neighbours to the list too. Certainly in the first lockdown, as we all stood and applauded the NHS every Thursday, it really felt like connections were being made and communities were pulling together.

We need more of this! Unfortunately, towards the end of the year, the bonhomie seemed to break down as we were urged to report people for ‘breaking lockdown rules’.

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On the work front, how many companies who previously fought against the idea of allowing staff to work from home, suddenly realised it can work, and work really well? And

how many of them will allow flexible working patterns to continue when (if?) things get back to what we used to regard as ‘normal’?

There is a potential downside to this scenario though…How many companies, having realised remote working is not only possible but effective, will attempt to outsource work to regions of the world with lower staffing costs? Hopefully not many, especially if they take the time to remember how outsourced call centres put peoples backs up!

Another thing to add to the list of ‘what has 2020 given us’ is the word ‘pivot’ – used repeatedly by business owners to indicate they had either changed the way they work, OR found a new and unexpected way to earn an income.

Perhaps we should also add the word ‘unprecedented’ to the list too – after all, it must have become the most overused word in the English language during 2020!

Whatever we experienced in 2020, is over now and (unless we have access to a time machine) none of us can go back and change anything. All any of us can do is take the positives through into 2021 and face the future with a smile.

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Bess of Hardwick Part 1 - The Ascendancy - Bess of Hardwick was an unusual woman. At a time when women were often considered to be possessions to be traded in marriage to the highest bidder, Bess became one of the most powerful women in Elizabethan times due to a series of fortuitous marriages.

Bess was born Elizabeth Hardwick sometime in 1527 (her exact date of birth is unknown) to father, John Hardwick, and his wife Elizabeth Leeke. The Hardwick family had arrived in Derbyshire at some point in the 13th century having moved from Sussex. They farmed land, granted to a Robert Savage, on the borders of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. By the 15th century the Hardwick family had climbed the social ladder somewhat, and were regarded as ‘gentlemen yeomen’ with a small estate.

Her first marriage, in around 1543, was to the young (13) heir of a nearby small estate – Robert Barley (Barlow). Robert’s father died soon after the wedding and Robert himself died in December 1544. There is no evidence that the couple actually lived together and obviously there were no children from the marriage. Bess’s claim to inherit was disputed and it was several years after his death before she was awarded both the estate and compensation.

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elevated her to Lady Cavendish. Sir William, probably at Bess’s urging sold his lands in the south of England and purchased the Chatsworth estate on which they began to build a mansion. Although he was more than 20 years her senior, the marriage was happy and produced eight children – one of whom; William, born 27 December 1552; became the First Earl of Devonshire. His Grandson was created Marquess of Hartington and Duke of Devonshire in 1694 and their descendants still live at Chatsworth House.

William died in October 1557 leaving Bess deep in debt. A third marriage in 1559 to Sir William Loe, Captain of the Guard to Queen Elizabeth I, ensued. His position enabled him to vastly reduce her debts and also gave her access to the Queen when she was made Lady of the Bedchamber. Upon his death some 7 years later, with no male heir, he left everything to Bess, and she became one of the wealthiest women in England.

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Bess of Hardwick: Part 2 – The Legacy - As we saw in the previous article, Bess rose from humble beginnings in rural Derbyshire to become one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the UK. Scotland (there will be more about those relationship in Part 3). And she married into the nobility. One of her lasting legacies however are the buildings she commissioned as her fortune increased.

Little remains of Bess’s home at Chatsworth after her descendant, the 4th Earl of Devonshire entirely remodelled the grand house she had begun building in 1552. There is little doubt however, that without her there would probably have been no Chatsworth for us to visit in the 21st Century. The only part of her scheme to remain unchanged to the present is the Hunting Tower sited in the hills overlooking the house.

Perhaps uniquely for the era; when Bess finally separated once and for all from her fourth and final husband, the Earl of Shrewsbury, she had the wealth and resources to live independently.

In 1584, following the acrimonious split, she left the Chatsworth estate fearing attack from her husband’s men. She found solace in her old family home at Hardwick which she had purchased in 1583 after the death of the brother; heir to that property; James Hardwick who had died in horrendous debt.

Finally free to do what SHE wanted, Bess oversaw the redevelopment of what was a simple Medieval manor house, into a grand and comfortable home for herself, her son William and his family. In 1590 the Earl of Shrewsbury, Bess’s estranged husband, died. She was thus the benefactor of even greater wealth and, fuelled by a passion for building AND immense

funds to support her ideas, she began to plan for an even grander house on the Hardwick site.

The Hardwick Hall we see today was built entirely at the behest of Bess herself and she took great pride and pleasure in overseeing the development. The huge expanses of glass windows were evidence of her wealth and she continued the innovation, first seen at Old Hardwick Hall, of a great hall running the centre of the house and two stories high. Work also continued on the Old Hall which was retained to act as a kind of overspill accommodation for guests and servants.

Bess spent the latter years of her life involved in furnishing Hardwick and overseeing the building work there and at Oldcotes where she had commissioned another house for her son William.

When she finally died in 1608, at the grand old age of 81, Bess was still regarded as one of the richest and most powerful women in the Kingdom. She was interred in All Saints Church, Derby under an elaborate monument she’d commissioned. When All Saints was demolished and rebuilt to form Derby Cathedral, Bess and her effigy were reinterred.

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS Expert domestic plumbing and heating services: • Boiler installation specialists • Gas, LPG and oil • Boiler servicing and repair • Radiators and underfloor heating • General plumbing works • Monthly payment options available

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Fully insured Serving the Hope Valley & surrounding areas since 2004 Full project management incl. BCO notices Internal structural alterations Plumbing, electrics, joinery, plastering & decoration Please call Julian to arrange a FREE no obligation visit

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Gorgeous Grebes Grebes are absolutely stunning. Rare species include Slavonian and black-necked grebes and both may occur in the Peak District and north Derbyshire but only occasionally. The former is a winter visitor to reservoirs and the latter a very uncommon breeder in smaller lowland lakes. The blacknecked is an amazing looking bird with jetDabchick black head, bright red eyes, and spectacular golden ‘eyebrows’.

However, come winter they lose their looks and revert to dull whites, greys, and browns. This means that in order fully appreciate grebes you really need to see them in full breeding plumage. Our two common species are the little grebe or dabchick, and its bigger cousin the great crested grebe. The names say it all, and the latter is a relatively large bird about twenty inches long, and during spring and summer it has a dramatically distinctive crest.

The showy adornment is necessary for the grebe’s elaborate courtship and pair-bonding. During the early breeding season, the birds spend a lot of time face-to-face and shaking their heads at each other.

The male offers the female bits of nesting material or perhaps a fish as an enticement and to maintain the female’s interest. The pair-bonding displays are elaborate and time-consuming, so birds spend long periods preening and posing.

Great crested grebes eat fish and were badly affected by the use of persistent pesticides such as DDT. By the 1970s, their numbers had plummeted; but like many other bird species populations increased as these chemicals were phased out. Recovery amounts to natural ‘rewilding’ with predators reestablishing populations in depleted ecosystems.

Recovery is aided by habitat creation and restoration projects such as Poolsbrook Country Park at Staveley in North Derbyshire and elsewhere across the region. Clean rivers and water-supply Dabchick reservoirs across

the Peak provide ideal habitat too. Furthermore, in smaller ponds and lakes, on canals, and in rivers there is our other common grebe, the dabchick.

I must admit that that the little grebe (or ‘Dabchick’ as it is commonly known) is one of my favourite birds being both full of character and also very approachable.

At about half the size Great Crested Grebe of a moorhen it is our smallest British grebe. Feeding on both small fish and aquatic invertebrates like crustaceans and insect larvae, these diving waterbirds are accomplished underwater swimmers. During summer they are highly territorial; a pair establishing and defending a territory along a linear watercourse like a Little Grebe canal or river. Here their nests are constructed of pondweed and other vegetation on floating platforms. In breeding plumage the adult birds are brightly coloured and also very vocal with a loud ‘whinnying’ song.

Indeed, they are often heard before they are seen.

But when winter arrives the little grebe assumes a gentle mix of subdued buff, off-white, and black; the dark bill is pale grey but retaining a bright yellow patch at its base. If the winter stays mild, then next year’s breeding numbers will rise again.

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Professor Ian D. Rotherham of Sheffield Hallam University is a researcher, writer and broadcaster on wildlife and environmental issues in the Peak District and elsewhere. He is contactable on info@hallamec.plus.com and you can follow his website and blog: & https://ianswalkonthewildside.wordpress.com/ 30 Don’t forget to www.ukeconet.org mention Voice Magazines when responding to the Ads

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