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Hi Readers, I hope you are enjoyed your great British Summer – it was hot and short lived like all the greats but fear not, I’m banking on a cracking September once all the school holidays, Euro’s etc are finished! You never know, we might have our long awaited ‘Freedom Day’ by that point!

Talking of ‘Freedom Day’, at this stage we still don’t know what’s happening with events at the time of writing & going to print. We aren’t sure if our beloved YNot festival is going ahead, my heart goes out to them and the rest of the hospitality industry as they find themselves in yet another state of limbo in which they are expected to ‘Pivot’. As a large proportion of society have discovered, it’s very difficult to survive financially when you can’t trade/go to work/have minimal income and the stress for the owners/organisers must be phenomenal. We have our fingers and toes crossed for everyone involved that the test events go well and that the rest of the events community including YNot get the go ahead at the beginning of July.

With this in mind, we’re now planning to bring our community events and diaries back in August or September editions, depending on what happens in the next few weeks and how much time we’ll have to put it together prior to print. If you were in any of these last time, please don’t assume that you will be included going forward, we will be starting from scratch! We’ll try and call some of the people from the previous listings but if you are a community group/notfor-profit organisation and you are planning events for later this year and/or you have regular meetings, send us an email to: info@voicemagazines.co.uk and one of the team will get back to you. These listings are free, they will only be a minimal listing and only accessible to community or not-for profit groups. However, if these groups would like something a little larger, we’ve put together and trialled in our Kirkby magazine, a community noticeboard. You can choose the size you require and prices start from £6+vat per square but you can buy multiple squares. Why not pop over to our issuu site or Facebook page if you don’t receive that edition, to have a look for yourself.

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RIPLEY & DISTRICT HERITAGE TRUST

Early Cinema in Ripley In the 1911 census for Grosvenor Road, Ripley, was the following entry: Ellen Hodds, head of household, aged 32, occupation: manageress of a cinematograph show.

Her story turns out to be an interesting one. Born in Norwich in 1879, she was the daughter of James Hibble, a showman who died when she was 10.

Her mother continued the business, travelling in a caravan mainly in the Eastern counties. Ellen married John Hodds in 1899 in West Ham: he too was a showman, owning a shooting gallery in Yarmouth. He became the manager of Crighton’s No 2 Cinematoscope show and was tragically killed when he was crushed under the wheels of their traction engine as they were leaving Diss for Thetford in 1909. Ellen must have been pregnant at that time, and had two young daughters.

The show was nominally taken over by John Hodds’ brother-in-law Charles Wheatley, but it looks as though Ellen was actually running it.

Fair, each major fairground family having one. They consisted of a large tent or prefabricated building, blacked out to show the films, with an ornate frontage often with a fairground organ and space for dancers and fast-talking showmen and women to bring in the crowds.

The films were short silent ones, with piano accompaniment, some purely entertainment, but others on topical subjects, and a few taken in the vicinity by firms like Mitchell and Kenyon. In Ripley in 1902 there were films of workers leaving Butterley ironworks and Crossley’s factory.

It was apparently quite common by 1911 that cinematograph shows were touring as standalone attractions, not as part of the fair, and hence the appearance of Ellen and her crew in Ripley in April of that year. They must have found lodging in Grosvenor Road whilst the show was on the Market Place. The fact that they did so rather than living in a caravan suggests that the show might have been in the town for some time.

Although the show might have been a bit worn by then – it had been in circulation since before 1900 – they must have provided a novelty for the town. The first permanent cinema – the Empire- wasn’t opened until the following year.

Cinematograph shows had been run by fairground

families since 1897, only a year or so after their invention. They became immensely popular in the years between then and the First World War, and as many as 4 of them appeared every October at Ripley

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The Yorkshire Speeds Championships, October 2019, saw the Seniors topping the leader board and awarded the Top Club trophy. In March 2020, the RLSS National Speed Championships

saw RASCALS lifesavers again, come top of the medal board with 38 medals, including 19 gold. Our Seniors and our coaches work hard, and it pays off!

Now, after being postponed last year, the attention of our Senior squad has once again turned to the Lifesaving World Championships planned for Italy September 2022….with various other competitions along the way!

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For Seniors, the Survive and Save programme includes both traditional lifesaving and competitive speed lifesaving. RASCALS have a very impressive record in competition.

Lifesaving is fun, inclusive and social. If you are a competitive swimmer and/or would like to expand your swimming activities or try something new, please contact us. Our club adheres to all government covid guidelines.

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This walk is for illustrative purposes only. Voice Magazines takes no responsibility for anyone who chooses to follow this route and encourages all walkers to obey all byelaws and signs and to respect the area they are walking in, ensuring they pick up all dog mess and obey the countryside code at all times.

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Introducing Paul from Time for You Hi, my name is Paul Keenan and I am the business owner of Time for You Derbyshire North Domestic Cleaning. I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself so that you can get a feel for the person behind the business. I also wanted to explain why I decided to launch my business back in September 2020.

Prior to moving into the domestic cleaning world I was a Project Manager in IT. I have worked in various industries over the past 20 years or so, but in recent years, I found myself wanting a different work/life balance. Long hours and commuting meant I was spending less time with my wonderful family and I wanted to change that. I wanted to have more flexibility, be in control of my own working pattern. I wanted to spend more quality time at home, this was the key driver for me. One of my favourite things to do is walk my daughter to school every day!

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Time for a Picnic July is ‘National Picnic Month’, and we are blessed in this part of the world to have lots of amazing places to spread our blankets and unpack our sandwiches. But let’s inject a few words of caution, and a couple of reminders…

We do have the ‘right to roam’ in this country, meaning you can access the countryside without sticking to paths, but there are still rules to adhere to.

Starting with the basics; firstly not all of the UK is classed as ‘open access land’ - areas marked on a map as ‘private (‘excepted land’)’ are restricted. You may be able to pass through but must use publicly marked footpaths. And even in ‘open access’ areas you should not horse ride, cycle, or drive a car or motorbike. You should not ‘wild camp’ either, without the permission of the land owner.

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Other common sense things to remember are to shut gates after you pass through them; be alert around livestock, particularly if they are with their young; and it shouldn’t need to be said but ‘TAKE YOUR RUBBISH HOME WITH YOU’!

All the above being said, who remembers the picnics of childhood?

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made of limp white sliced bread filled with potted meat (or sliced ham if you ‘were a bit posh’), lukewarm fizzy drinks and thermos flasks of stewed tea! If you were lucky there’d be something sweet to finish off the feast - a slice of home made cake, a bun, or perhaps a melting chocolate bar.

What we never did was take a foil container full of charcoal, light it, burn a few burgers or sausages and then leave the smoking hot tray of coals behind to ignite woodland and moors alike. That my friends is a very 2020s phenomena, and one that needs to be stopped immediately IMHO. And breathe…

Enjoy National Picnic Month sensibly, dig out the rugs, the picnic baskets, cool bags, Tupperware, and thermos flasks; invent new sandwich flavours - potted meat (whilst delicious) is so last century. Go a bit upmarket, buy a ‘posh’ loaf of bread, cut off the top, hollow it out and stuff the middle with all manner of loveliness before putting the top back on and wrapping the whole lot tightly in clingfilm. Put it in the fridge for a couple of hours with something heavy on top to press it down, then slice and enjoy al fresco… yum!

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Book Review

Most people will have a time in their youth when they think back and say “we were mad then, do you remember?”

Nights out partying, then going straight to work next morning; or climbing mountains in blizzards, or crazy evenings in pubs or at rock concerts or festivals when everybody seems like your best friend or spending your pay packet on a mad shopping spree. Just fill in your own best moments. And remember the friends you did it with.

Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies starts as a celebration of mad youth. His mayflies, Jimmy and Tully are lads from small-town Scotland who break free and head for a weekend of magical escape in Manchester in the 1980s. Yes it was possible!

Jimmy, the narrator, has a lovely turn of phrase. The story is full of wit and energy and carries you along at breakneck speed.

Thirty years pass and the two meet up again. The story turns into a different tale, but the author treats middle age with the same thoughtfulness and compassion as he does the craziness of youth.

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The exotic species of the Peaks and surrounding areas We love our native fauna and flora, but increasingly there are exotic wildlife species establishing across the region and in many cases we need to adjust and learn to appreciate them. A ‘weed’ is a plant in the wrong place but this is often a subjective label which we attach for various reasons; and of course many alien ‘weeds’ in the wild escape from our gardens and often natives in our gardens are viewed as ‘weeds’! Furthermore, a good number of the most familiar flowers and wild fauna like mammals and birds are not native and of these many are celebrated species firmly established as part of our natural heritage. Canada goose and common ring-necked pheasant for example, are widely recognisable birds making up a significant proportion of wild bird biomass in Britain, but are nonnatives.

For example, in the Peak District the iconic mountain hare which is native to Britain is not native here, or at least not for a very long time. It was reintroduced by Victorian grouse-moor owners. By contrast the specially protected brown hare is not at all native to Britain but came with Celts for whom it had deep cultural significance. It was later reintroduced by the Romans and subsequently the Normans. So this is all very confusing. The fallow deer around Matlock and Darley Dale are also not at all native but are a Mediterranean animal and the dark (melanistic) animals of North Derbyshire are escapees from a famous medieval herd at Stanton-in-the Peak. Obviously the now familiar grey squirrel is a North American import, but then many of the now regionally-extinct red squirrels were in fact reintroductions by landowners.

Chatsworth even had a population of dark– coloured reds which were of German origin and could be seen up to the 1970s.

With flowers things become even more complex with exotic cultivars and varieties of what are native plants escaping from gardens to establish in the wild. We see this with wild daffodil populations now mingling with garden narcissi; and most famously perhaps with so-called ‘Spanish bluebell’ spreading widely and in fact a hybrid of the British and Iberian or Spanish bluebells. A few thousand years ago these were all one species anyway…… Added to this situation is the way in which we subjectively like some species but not others. Botanists tend to like the beautiful and exotic yellow European leopard’s-bane but are less keen on North American skunk cabbage or Indian Balsam; all are colonising the Derbyshire River Derwent.

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While you’re sitting there with your summer glass of something cool, admiring the results of this year’s hard work, remember one word – DEADHEAD. Not a romantic word admittedly, but really important. For more blooms, take their heads off as soon as the flower has gone over. Don’t let the plant set seed or it will think its job is done and not bother flowering again. Sweet peas especially need to be picked often and always take out their seed pods.

Watch out that your pond, if you’re lucky enough to have one, doesn’t start to dry out if we have hot or windy weather. If you’ve got fish or amphibians it’s best to use rainwater to top up, as tap water has nutrients which will encourage algae to grow. But if you do use cold tap water add it gradually so it’s not too much of a shock to your wildlife. If there’s lots of weeds on the surface, twirl them out with a stick and leave them on the side overnight so beasties can crawl out.

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