Rural Voice - Darley Dale & Villages Edition - July 2021

JULY ‘21

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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 and events industry as they find themselves in yet another state of limbo. 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 featured in any of these sections previously 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/not-for-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 Bakewell 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.

In the meantime, enjoy our July editions with huge thanks for all our distributors, contributors and advertisers and of course, yourselves for making these magazines possible.

Happy Reading,

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The Derwent Valley is an area that is rich in history thanks to the work of industrial pioneers Sir Richard Arkwright, Jedediah Strutt, the Evans family and the Lombe brothers, who transformed the valley into the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.

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The new tours have been made possible by a grant received from the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Great Place Scheme, funded by National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England.

Trevor Griffin, Derwent Valley Tours Project Manager commented that, “We appreciate the support of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Great Place Scheme to help deliver such an exciting project.

Our aim is to increase the visitor offer in the World Heritage Site and to spread the message about the global significance of the Derwent Valley. Derwent Valley Tours will connect sites and stories across the valley.

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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.

Another obvious rule (or at least it SHOULD be obvious!) is to keep dogs on leads whilst you are near ANY livestock - it doesn’t matter how ‘good’ your beloved pooch is, a dog is a hunter by nature, and you have no idea if/when your pet may decide to follow his instincts. You should also keep your dog on a leash if you are visiting the countryside during the period between 1 March and 31 July to protect ground-nesting birds.

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?

The plaid rugs, Tupperware boxes of wilting salad that no one ate, sarnies

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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!

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

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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.

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You Want Jam Too?!

When I was a kid, my dad used to say, ‘you want jam on it you do!’ meaning (I think) that I expected more than I was being given. So for example I’d be offered one thing and instead ask for something else (I was a contrary child!).

This little tale leads nicely into the fact that 25 July to 1 August is ‘Jam Week’, or National Preserving Awareness Week to give it its full title.

Now I personally am not sure we need an entire week devoted to jam, but obviously someone on high does think that, so I am duty bound to make myself, and thus you, more ‘preserving aware’!

In days of ‘yore’, i.e. before such newfangled things as fridges and freezers, if you wanted to store the fruits of your labours - your home grown fruit and vegetables - you had to find some way to ‘preserve’ them. Bottling, aka canning is one way of doing this, but this dates back only as far as the 19th century when it was discovered that sealing foods in glass jars (using corks and a wax layer) and then boiling the jars, preserved the contents for a considerable period of time.

Our ancestors would also dig ‘root cellars’ where fruit and vegetables could be stored during the winter months; the soil underground keeps the space above freezing temperature and the moisture in the air prevents vegetables from losing water and becoming rubbery. Apparently, the food stored in this way was still ‘good’ (or at least edible!) for between 5 - 8 months. Apples were also often stored in ‘apple lofts’ wrapped in paper or scraps of old fabric, like sacking, to keep them separate. And onions and garlic would be ‘strung’, after allowing

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the papery outer skin to dry out, and hung in a cool dry place.

Softer fruits and vege’ pose a problem though, and this is where jams, and the savoury equivalent, chutneys, come into play. In simple terms fruits like berries are boiled with sugar until a point is reached where the cooled ‘jam’ sets. Chutney making follows a similar process but usually with the addition of vinegar.

The earliest known ‘jam’ is thought to have originated in Ancient Greece (although it could have been much, much earlier) when honey was used to preserve quince (a type of fruit). Fruits were also stored in syrups made from honey mixed with water which kept the air out and thus preserved the fruit to a degree. There is a recipe for ‘jam’ dating to 4th century Rome, Marcus Gavius Apicius (probably a pseudonym) wrote a cookbook entitled ‘De Re Coquinaria’ (The Art of Cooking), in which he describes a recipe for soft fruit heated with honey, which was then cooled and stored.

Sounds like a jam to me!

I suddenly have a yen to make jam… strawberry, raspberry, or blackcurrant - which is your favourite?

These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing.

To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341

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U3A TABLE TENNIS AT THE WHITWORTH CENTRE Lots of people played table tennis in their younger days in youth clubs and the like. While some never progressed beyond ping-pong, others became very competent players, but I wonder how many stopped playing with the advent of adult life, with responsibilities for family, home and work? It is a sport which can be picked up again later in life and much research shows that when we are retired it is one of the best activities there are. It encourages good hand and eye co-ordination, good reactions and it promotes overall fitness.

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Chocoholics Unite for World Chocolate Who doesn’t love chocolate? Actually, me for one, I quite like the odd piece, maybe a choccy digestive with a cuppa, and I have been known to enjoy a slice of chocolate cake or two…But love it - no, in fact I could easily live without it.

I have friends however (close friends) who are completely and unashamedly chocoholics. Many years ago, on a girly holiday to Portugal (remember when we could holiday abroad with ease?!) I recall sitting holding a Mars Bar for a friend to bite on whilst her nail polish dried. How’s that for helping out a mate?

(probably not dissimilar to the original Xocolātl) and used as a form of medicine for tummy complaints. Someone had the bright idea of adding sugar, or honey, to sweeten the concoction making it far more palatable, and within 100 years this ‘chocolate’ drink had a foothold across Europe.

But back to chocolate, love it, hate it, or just get along with it - what do you really know about its history and origins? I’ll give you a clue - chocolate didn’t start with Cadbury’s, Rowntree’s or Nestle, it is in fact a much, much older substance.

Chocolate as we know it today is a result of a Dutch chemist, Coenraad van Houten, working out in 1815 how to add an alkaline substance to reduce the bitterness; a few years later he developed a machine to take out roughly 50% of the solid ‘cacao butters’. In 1847 Joseph Fry learned how to make chocolate mouldable by adding back some of the cacao butter, and in 1875 Daniel Peter invented milk chocolate by mixing in a powdered milk developed by Henri Nestlé.

The word chocolate derives from the Aztec word Xocolātl and made itself into the English language via Spanish after the Spaniards conquered large parts of Central America in the 16th Century.

Xocolātl was a fermented beverage created from the beans of the cacao trees, and evidence of it has been traced back to 1900 BC. The cacao tree’s beans are thought to have been used in medicinal and religious rites going right back to the earliest known Mesoamerican cultures - the Olmecs, to the Mayans, Inca, and Aztecs. Cacao beans were unknown to Europeans until the 16th century, and one Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés may have been the first European to encounter chocolate when he saw it being served in the court of Montezuma in 1519.

Cacao beans finally made it to Spain later in the 16th century. Initially they were made into a bitter tasting drink

Back in the 1900s chocolate was expensive and out of the reach of the general populace, it took plantations in West Africa and slave labour to bring the costs down to a level the middle and lower classes could afford.

And there you have it…the origins of chocolate, from the conquest of Mesoamerica to the slave trade…not as sweet as you may have hoped!

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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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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.

Some of these plants sneak in unseen until they appear everywhere and one of those is the few-flowered leek with its garlic-scented leaves and now spreading along roadsides and woodland edges everywhere. Its cousin, the three-cornered leek is not far behind. Both Danish and English scurvygrass are along all our major roads where winter salt is put down. These saltmarsh species are native to Britain but certainly not to Derbyshire and the Peaks. It does make you think!

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