Voice Magazine - Swanwick, Riddings, Leabrooks and Somercotes edition - November 2020

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Soooo, a rubbish thing happened this month – some scruffy little fandangler grabbed our beloved magazines from the internet and started calling our customers, impersonating us and telling them that they owed £100 on their accounts and he would need to take payment now! How rude! We reported them to Action Fraud (for what use that was, because until someone has actually had money taken off them, they won’t do anything about it!). Anyway, we popped it across our social media networks for our advertisers to beware and it sounds like the imposter got fed up after getting lots of fleas in his ear! Our fabulous customers past and present know us and know to call us directly if they ever get a call like that and that’s just what they did; Voice Customers 1 – Nasty little scammers 0!

As the weirdness of 2020 and more unfathomable rules continue, a strange thought occurred to me which I have discussed at length with various different people on my non-travelling travels! How can a year go so quickly when you literally have nothing to show for it?! Don’t get me wrong, I’m quite pleased about it in some respects but it’s basically Christmas next week and it was only 20mins ago that we were in lock down back in April, and time normally drags when you’re grounded!! So how about thinking about what we have learnt from this year. I have taken the time to focus more on my physical and mental health and feel much better for it. Maybe for you it is discovering a new hobby or interest, maybe you have realised how important your friends and family are or maybe it’s been some small acts of kindness you have experienced. But heyho if none of this applies maybe we shouldn’t look a

gift horse in the mouth and fingers crossed that the next 6 months flies by as swiftly (just so we can get back to spring again and hopefully more normality.

Please note, I don’t normally wish my life away either and I know you shouldn’t!!).

Anyway, I just wondered if everyone else felt the same or is it just me?

This month our front covers pay homage to Remembrance Day. Because of the pandemic there is a risk that this important memorial is neglected, particularly considering the potential loss of fundraising, so please visit the website and support them where you can. They are a charity and funding is much needed to support veterans and without the usual concentrated focus, we don’t want their coffers to run dry as they do such fantastic work – Lest we forget.

Hopefully see you all in the blink of an eye at Christmas!

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Why is now the right time to sell?

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The Industrial Revolution – It began in Derbyshire!

When you see the words “industrial revolution” what’s your first thought?

“Dark satanic mills”. Smoke blackened houses. A grimy cityscape…

Densely populated areas like an inner city – Sheffield, Manchester, Bradford perhaps.

You’d be right in a way, but the industrial revolution in the United Kingdom actually had its roots in the seemingly tranquil environs of Cromford – a small village near the River Derwent. Located between Wirksworth and Matlock. It is first mentioned in the Domesday Book as Crumforde.

Pre the 1770s cotton, imported from the US was spun by non-industrial means – individuals, in ‘cottage industry fashion’, mainly in Lancashire which already had a long history of fabric production. In around 1765, one James Hargreaves invented the “spinning Jenny” – the first multi-spindle spinning frame, meaning one worker could work eight or more spools at once. The power to operate the system was provided by the spinner rapidly turning a wheel with one hand.

Unfortunately, the yarn produced by the spinning Jenny wasn’t particularly strong and up stepped Richard Arkwright, an inventive chap born in Preston, Lancashire.

Richard came from a humble background, the youngest of seven surviving children born to tailor Thomas Arkwright. With no money for education his parents apprenticed him to a barber, and it was whilst working there that he invented a waterproof dye for the popular wigs of the time. The income from that invention helped to fund his prototype cotton machinery.

In 1769 Arkwright patented ‘the water frame’ which used an overshot water wheel as its power source instead of the power of a spinner’s hand.

To raise capital to build a mill to use this new machinery, he

partnered with a couple of Nottingham based hosiery manufacturers and in 1771 the first mill at Cromford was built, opening in 1772.

The location was carefully chosen as there was a ready supply of water from an old lead mine drainage passage as well as access to a nearby brook. Geothermal heating meant that water leaving the mine remained free flowing even in winter – an important consideration if a mill was to operate year round.

New housing had to be built in the area to accommodate the numbers of workers required to operate the mill. These houses are the first examples of factory housing development in the world.

Working conditions in the mills would not have been pleasant; two 13 hr shifts per day operated, to allow an hour’s changeover each shift. Bells were rung to signal shift starts and anyone clocking in late would not be paid for the entire shift.

Entire families were encouraged to move to Cromford to take up jobs in the mill and towards the end of Arkwright’s tenure it is believed that up to 2/3rds of the workforce were actually children. Arkwright’s mechanisation and factory operations were copied throughout the UK and beyond and that is why he can be regarded as being the instigator of the Industrial Revolution… right here in Derbyshire.

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Luther had two sons, Robert and Geoffrey, both of whom returned from WWII; Robert a Lt Colonel in the Indian Army in Burma and Geoffrey a Colonel (GC) in Europe. Both had followed their father into the Law training as solicitors. My grandfather opened an office in Clay Cross for my father and opened an office for Geoffrey in Fishguard, Mid Wales (Geoffrey had a long and difficult recovery from the injuries he received taking the action for which he was Decorated).

Opas House was commissioned in 1958 by my father Robert Pepper, to allow the expanding family law firm to move from their cramped rented premises in Providence Square into their own new premises.

The site was vacant apart from a Nissan Hut from which a hairdresser traded. My father and the hairdresser had known each other for a very long time and this led to him agreeing to vacate the site provided the new building made space for a hairdresser to operate. My father honoured this agreement. The construction was undertaken by a local building firm (Mr Robinson) that had undertaken much of the house and building in the area.

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Apparently I’ve been very good over the past few weeks. On some days, she tells me, I’ve not started moaning about anything until Ken Bruce comes on Radio 2. Well, I’ve been trying really hard and even managed a smile last week as I politely asked that young man to pick up the Red Bull can he’d dropped onto the pavement. I wasn’t smiling though when I heard what he had to say. Mind you, to be fair, Jeremy Vine’s show had started by then.

Flushed with this (albeit limited) success, the love of my life, now thinking that she’s some sort of therapist, has suggested that I look to the future with optimism and think of the things that I’d like to do before my moaning days are over.

“OK mon petit chou” says I. NB – she likes me to come over all romantic, but not before the start of Steve Wright in the Afternoon! “First though” I continued, “I’ll reflect upon all the things I’ve either stopped doing, have never done in the past or are unlikely to ever do in the future.” For some bizarre reason, I thought that would make me happy. It didn’t, but it got me thinking. Here are some samples from the long list I came up with.

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Buy a replica football short. Not that I’m vain in any way, but they just don’t do anything for my physique - or most blokes over the age of 40 for that matter!

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I gave up smoking many years ago and bought a wedding ring with the savings. Hmmm, I do wonder sometimes just how much I’ve actually saved over the years.

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Treat myself to a personalised number plate.

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Watch breakfast television. I just don’t have the time.

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Waste my breath saying ‘two thousand and twenty’ when I mean ‘twenty twenty’.

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Had my hair permed. point.

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On principle, I’ve never watched Braveheart.

Of all the fine Scottish actors that they could have picked - James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Robbie Coltrane & Jimmy Krankie come to mind - they went for Mel Gibson from Peekskill, New York. I rest my case.

Just never seen the

10. Despite being sorely tempted on occasions, requested a knife and fork in McDonalds.

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Those of you who enjoy reading Mike’s Musings each month may be interested to hear that his second book was published last month. It’s a sporting memoir, written in his own style, and available from Amazon. If you think this will appeal to you (or someone you know) send Mike an email to mike.musings@outlook.com and he’ll provide details.

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Winter bedding makes the garden look a bit more cheerful and there’s plenty of variety available, from winter flowering heather to winter flowering pansies, violas, and polyanthus. They may not all flower all the time, but given some decent periods of sun they’ll reward your endeavour.

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