Derby Uncovered Issue 5

Digging Deeper into Derby and Derbyshire

THE PLAGUE VILLAGE

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We look into the story of the selfless sacrifice made by the people of the Derbyshire village of Eyam - the plague village.

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BAD COMPANY

We examine the life and exploits of Thomas Hopkinson –a man who managed to successfully evade the hangman once –but not twice.

WAR ON THE DOORSTEP

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CARE & COMPASSION FOR YOUR FAMILY, AS IF IT'S OUR FAMILY

Ashmere is a family run business providing the very best care across Derbyshire. Our ethos is that we are here for everyone, from our residents right through to the families too. When the time comes to find a care provider we know that there are many questions that need to be answered and our personal approach ensures you get the opportunity to speak with our care team directly and addresses all the questions you may have.

Ashmere is a family run business providing the very best care across Derbyshire. Our ethos is that we are here for everyone, from our residents right through to the families, too.

When the time comes to find a care provider we know that there are many questions that need to be answered and our personal approach ensures you get the opportunity to speak with our care team directly and address all the questions.

Ashmere currently has seven fantastic care homes to choose from, specialising in the following areas; residential care, nursing, dementia and daycare.

All of our care homes have friendly, professional and dedicated teams that work tirelessly to make sure each one of our residents are provided only the best care possible.

Derbyshire UN Derby

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CONTENTS

FEATURED ARTICLES

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LANDSLIP AT THE CEMETERY

We go all the way back to 1924 to investigate the gruesome spectacle of a landslip at the Nottingham Road Cemetery in Derby.

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THE PLAGUE VILLAGE

We look into the story of the selfless sacrifice made by the people of the Derbyshire village of Eyam - the plague village.

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ROYAL CROWN DERBY

We learn the story of Jean Jacques Spangler – one of Royal Crown Derby’s most talented modelers –but also a very troublesome man.

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LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE

Come with us as we go take a look at some new and gorgeous retirement apartments in Derby from Burghley Retirement Living.

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KALWINDER SINGH DHINDSA

Derby author, poet and creator Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa shares his work and thoughts with us.

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LOCAL STUDIES LIBRARY

Jayne Brown talks about her work on a volunteer research project that is looking into the history of Osmaston.

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CRZYBEST

Why not go and check this event out at the Derby City Lab in September? One of Derby’s brightest and best creators will be hosting a must-see event.

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NATIONAL GARDEN SCHEME

Read about the local gardens open for charity in August and September.

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LAYER OF HISTORY

We examine the history of the Corn Market – once again with the help of W.W Winter.

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HADDON HALL

Keep yourself up to date with the very latest from Haddon Hall - 'the most perfect house to survive from the middle ages’.

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DERBY AND BURTON HOSPITAL CHARITY

Find out more about how you can help the Derby and Burton Hospital Charity.

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THE UNFORTUNATE THOMAS HULLEY

We look into a man who was just a line of text in an execution list and try to piece what we can about him together.

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CATHEDRAL QUARTER HISTORIC

TRAIL

Check out and follow our fantastic Cathedral Quarter History Trail and learn more about one of the most beautiful and historic parts of Derby.

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DERBY IN PICTURES

Mark Miley from derbyinpictures.com looks into the history and background of the Kingsway Hospital in Derby.

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NUTRITION AND RETREAT

Time to reflect, re-energise and be inspired. Reflect on Nature. Re-energise from Nutrition. Be inspired by us.

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FISH IN WATER

Sarah Roach – our resident wellbeing and change coach - offers us more invaluable advice on how we can improve our mental and physical self.

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I WANT YOU TO BELIEVE

Learn more about how the world premiere of the stage play of Dracula wasn’t in the glitzy West End or on Broadway – it was in Derby.

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THE MODERN-DAY MR. ARKWRIGHT

We check back in with Graham Mulholland – owner of the Darley Abbey Store – to see how things are developing with his plans for the store.

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TO AVOID BAD COMPANY

We examine the life and exploits of Thomas Hopkinson – a man who managed to successfully evade the hangman once – but not twice.

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AN IMPATIENT AND HEADSTRONG CHARACTER

Read the true account of the time that All Saints Church – now Derby Cathedral – required a rebuild after its very own Reverend had it demolished.

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DEATH BY VIOLENCE

We recount the grizzly story of a murder committed in a lunatic asylum in Derby back in the 1800’s.

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ERNEST TOWNSEND

Part Two of our look at the life of one of Derby’s greatest artists - Ernest Townsend - is brought to us by one of his grandsons – Jim Townsend.

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WAR ON THE DOORSTEP

Hear about the night in World War One when a Zeppelin bomber released its bombs on Derby bringing death and destruction to our doorstep.

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CLIPPINGS FROM THE PAST

We take a look at some selected clippings from the Derby Mercury during the 1800s as we look at how things were reported and written in a different era.

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FAMOUS FOOTPRINTS

We examine the life of Alice Wheeldon and look at her background and the crime she was sensationally accused of.

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RYKNELD BOWLS CLUB

We look back at the history of Rykneld Bowls Club - a beautifully peaceful and serene oasis of tranquility.

A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO PATRICK GRIFFIN WHO HAS OVERSEEN ALL THE EDITORIAL WORK WITHIN THIS ISSUE. HIS HELP, AS EVER, HAS BEEN INVALUABLE.

LANDSLIP AT NOTTINGHAM ROAD CEMETERY

If you have lived in Chaddesden for any length of time, it’s almost certain that someone will have asked you the question: “When exactly did the wall of Nottingham Road Cemetery collapse?” Many people will tell you that this event took place in 1922, others are equally certain that it occurred sometime in 1923, or then again maybe 1924. Now, at long last here is the answer.

Had you been passing by the cemetery on your way to work in Derby early in the morning of Friday March 14, 1924, you might well have been expecting to see the familiar traffic chaos caused by an assortment of trams, lorries, horses and carts, cars and bicycles all trying to jostle their way along the narrow and inadequate road. What you most certainly would not have anticipated was the sight of a considerable landslip which had exposed coffins in the cemetery and carried others down to road level, scattering some bones about in the process!

This gruesome spectacle was an unforeseen consequence of Derby Corporation’s latest road-improvement scheme, for in an effort to widen the road and provide a much-needed pavement on its south side (roughly between the Cemetery Gatehouse and Mason’s Paint Works) workmen were systematically removing countless tons of soil from the cemetery perimeter and installing new banking. Unfortunately, just before 9am on this particular morning, an area of ground in the cemetery became unstable and tons of earth slipped down into the road below. This must have been rather dangerous, for Nottingham Road cuts deeply into the surrounding land hereabouts and the variation between surface levels in the cemetery and the road is quite significant in places.

The cemetery on a map c.1900.

Nottingham Road Cemetery.

Commenting on the incident, that day’s edition of the Derby Daily Telegraph noted that tarpaulin sheeting had been placed over the affected area by the afternoon. The paper’s reporter interviewed someone thought to be the works foreman, who said that falls of this kind were fairly common, but then a correction was printed a few days later when Mr. W. Allsebrook, who was actually in charge of the men, wrote in denying he had made these comments since he was far too busy getting the site cleared, and added that ‘these things are quite unforeseen’. At the next meeting of Derby Town Council in early April 1924, Councillor Frank Porter asked: “If it was a fact that coffins and bones had been exposed to public view by a fall of earth on Nottingham Road at the cemetery?”, and demanded to know what steps were being taken to rectify the situation. In reply, Alderman Fletcher confirmed that ‘this had unfortunately happened, but relatives had been consulted and were satisfied that everything possible had been done under the circumstances’.

It is worth emphasising that a landslip rather than a collapsed wall seemingly caused the problem. Today’s users of Nottingham Road are, of course, familiar with the massive retaining wall on Cemetery Hill, but back in 1924 the boundary between cemetery and road was apparently marked by a steep (but not vertical) earthen slope terminating at a stone wall bordering the road. In passing, it is interesting to note that the Cemeteries & Garden Allotments Committee of Derby Town Council had previously given permission to tip material excavated in connection with the road widening onto land it had purchased for an extension of the Cemetery down by the Derby Canal.

Some further details about the unfortunate events of March 14, 1924 can be gleaned by examining the pages of the Derby Evening Telegraph between November 1983 and January 1984 and also just a few years ago in December 2008, when readers’ enquiries prompted others to write in with their recollections. As regards the suggested dates, 1922 and 1923 were the most popular years, although one person thought the fall of earth took place as late as 1931 – in fairness this probably related to another, later incident. Two people confirmed that a landslip rather than the collapse of a wall had caused the problem, and one remembered the authorities placing naphtha flares around the site at night-time to warn approaching vehicles of the hazard. By far the most detailed correspondent, and the one who came closest to specifying the precise date, was a lady by the name of Miss Annie Benson Pollard, from Bournemouth, who once lived at Boundary House on the south side of Nottingham Road. Her family’s property, situated across the road from the present number 335, was aptly named because it had been built astride the parish boundary – half in Chaddesden and half in St. Alkmund’s, Derby – and fixed to the house wall alongside Nottingham Road was an iron plate recording this fact.

Miss Pollard recalled that in 1924, Derby Corporation began to widen Nottingham Road and

during the removal of countless thousands of tons of earth the collapse occurred, which ‘disturbed some coffins'. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I assume that the landslip was fairly near to her cottage, which stood some feet below the level of the adjacent cemetery. Judging by the census returns, the Pollard family had resided hereabouts for many years. In 1901 they were apparently living on the north side of Nottingham Road but then moved into Boundary House some time prior to 1911. I always imagined this property as a tiny cottage, but thanks to a new question on the 1911 census form requiring householders to indicate the number of rooms (including the kitchen but excluding the bathroom) in their home, it seems that Boundary House was evidently a reasonable size for it possessed six rooms in total. Sadly, Miss Pollard said that the 1924 road improvement scheme also involved the demolition of Boundary House, so before long the family left their old home, which the workmen quickly reduced to nothing more than a heap of rubble. Boundary House on Nottingham Road not only marked the division between Chaddesden and St. Alkmund’s parishes, but also represented the point at which county met town, since Chaddesden was then firmly rooted in the county whereas St. Alkmund’s Parish was very much part of the borough and town of Derby. This subtle distinction was given especial prominence from time to time, such as in 1861 when the inhabitants of Boundary House were able to watch a colourful civic procession taking place right on their very doorstep.

The occasion was the ceremonial opening of the commission for the Derbyshire Summer Assizes – a major judicial event, but one with definite society overtones. Mr. W. T. Cox was the newly-appointed High Sheriff of Derbyshire and after he and a ‘numerous and influential company of ladies and gentlemen’ had breakfasted at his home, Spondon Hall, on 25 July 1861, he boarded his carriage and at 11 o’clock began to proceed along Nottingham Road towards Derby, accompanied by a long line of horsemen and private carriages. At about the same time, members of Derby Corporation and various officials set out from the Town Hall to meet him.

The order of their procession was: The Corporation Banner – The Head Constable of the Borough – The Deputy Chief Constable of the County –Members of the Police – The Mayor’s Banner – Two Trumpeters – The Town Crier – Six Halberdiers –Sergeants at Mace – Members of the Corporation, Town Clerk and other officers in their carriages –The High Sheriff’s Banner.

By arrangement, both processions met at Boundary House on Nottingham Road, where the Borough convoy adroitly performed an elaborate about-turn before escorting the High Sheriff’s carriage back into Derby and then up to the Railway Station in order to meet Mr. Justice Willes, one of the Assize Judges. Shortly before 1pm the Judge arrived on the train from Lincoln, whereupon he took his place in the High Sheriff’s carriage and the procession, now swollen by even more people both mounted and on foot, headed off to County Hall in St. Mary’s Gate, passing crowds of people who had turned out to watch this colourful spectacle. Once at County Hall, the Judge formally opened the Assize commission, after which he first attended a service at All Saints’ Church and then the High Sheriff’s grand dinner at the Royal Hotel. While all these official ceremonies were taking place we can be sure that back in the neighbourhood of Boundary House people were still talking about the grand turn-out they had witnessed earlier in the day. Nowadays, of course, Boundary House is just a distant memory and all that remains to mark its site is a small patch of grass adjacent to a car park inside Mason’s Place Business Park.

This article was written by Peter Cholerton and was kindly provided to us by the Derby Heritage Forum. The Derby Heritage Forum meet once a week for the purpose of researching, discussing and correlating the rich history and heritage of Derby and Derbyshire and you can find them on Facebook here - www.facebook.com/ profile.php?id=100064920871246

The perimeter wall of the cemetery on Nottingham Road.

The VillagePlague

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I remember very well where I was on the evening of March 23, 2020 and even if the date isn’t immediately recognisable, you probably do too. It was then that the nation was put under lockdown for the first time in the COVID 19 pandemic. It was inevitable that this would happen as some point as the virus began to spread in the UK and throughout the world, but for one Derbyshire village it wasn’t the first time that a pandemic had resulted in a lockdown.

The village was Eyam, and the year was 1666, but on this occasion, it wasn’t a government-imposed lockdown. The villagers had quarantined themselves.

The story begins in 1665 when Alexander Hadfield, the local tailor, received a flea-infested bundle of cloth from London. His assistant George Viccars noticed that within a week, the bundle was damp and he opened it up to investigate. Before long he was dead and soon after the members of his household died too. Bubonic plague had arrived in Eyam.

A contemporary illustration of people fleeing the plague in London and in turn spreading it to other areas of the country.

story of the selfless sacrifice made by the people of a Derbyshire village.

Eyam Village Green and Church Street.

The plague - known as the Black Death during the 14th Century when it caused an estimated 50 million deaths - had brought death and despair to England on various occasions before. The first outbreak in England had occurred between 1348 and 1350 when it killed around 30 to 40% of the population with further epidemics breaking out in 1563, 1593, 1625 and of course 1665.

From September 1665 to December of the same year, 42 villagers had already died in the outbreak – to put this into perspective the population stood at around 350 before the outbreak – and as spring came around in 1666 many villagers were considering fleeing the village to save both their lives and livelihoods.

It was at this point that William Mompesson intervened.

Realising he needed help, William personally met with and spoke to Thomas and between them they devised a plan and on June 24, 1666 Mompesson spoke to his parishioners. Telling them that the Earl of Devonshire, who lived at nearby Chatsworth. had offered food and supplies if the village agreed to quarantined, he told them nobody should be allowed to either leave or enter the village. It was a sacrifice that he was prepared to make himself too, as he stated he would rather die himself than see other communities nearby decimated like theirs had been. Though the villagers were understandably hesitant, Thomas also stated his support for the plan and the villagers reluctantly agreed. As well as the quarantine itself, various other measures were introduced. Families were to bury their own dead, church services were relocated to the natural amphitheatre of Cucklett Delph and supplies from surrounding villages would be left on marked rocks. When the villagers collected the supplies, they would make holes in the rock which they would fill with vinegar to disinfect the money left as payment.

While the villagers lived under these conditions the plague was contained – but its toll on the village was unfathomable.

By August 1666 five to six people were dying daily and entire families were decimated. In the space of eight days Elizabeth Hancock buried six of her

children and her husband, while Mary Hadfield – wife of Alexander Hadfield the tailor – lost thirteen relatives including Alexander himself, and by the time the plague abated in November 1666, only 83 people had survived.

Though William Mompesson survived his wife Catherine did not.

William was the newly appointed rector at Eyam and, wanting to stop the plague spreading to nearby towns, believed that the town of Eyam should be quarantined. Aside from the huge task of getting the villagers to agree to this sacrifice, there was another issue facing William because he was very unpopular with the residents of Eyam who preferred the previous rector who had been exiled to the edge of the village.

The previous rector in Eyam had been a man by the name of Thomas Stanley. Thomas – and most of his parish – had supported Oliver Cromwell and his Puritan government, prior to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660. When Thomas had refused to accept the 1662 Act of Uniformity - an Act introduced by Charles II which made it compulsory to use the Book of Common Prayer in religious services – he had been removed from the position and William had taken over in April 1664.

William stayed in Eyam for three further years helping to rebuild the shattered community before being relieved of his post and transferred to the parish of Eakring.

The plan of William, the support of Thomas Stanley and the consent of the villagers was truly an incredibly selfless act that protected nearby towns such as Sheffield and Bakewell and is still commemorated at the annual Plague Commemoration service, held on the last Sunday of August in Cucklet Delf, the place where Mompesson held his outdoor services three and a half centuries ago.

For more information on Eyam go to: www.eyamvillage.org.uk

William Mompesson (1639 - 1709).

It is here during the plague that money soaked in vinegar (believed to kill the infection) was placed by the villagers of Eyam in exchange for food and medical supplies.

Mary Hadfield was the sole survivor of the five household members who lived in this cottage.

The tomb of Catherine Mompesson.

Back in 1790 when Royal Crown Derby was based on the Nottingham Road and was known as Crown Derby Porcelain, the boss Mr Duesbury employed a very talented modeler called Jean Jacques Spangler. Duesbury may have been delighted to have secured this gifted individual, but little did he know what a troublemaker Spangler would turn out to be..

Within two years of his initial employment Spangler had got himself into debt and had become inattentive to his work. However, if Duesbury was to fire his best modeller he would have to find another to match him which was no easy task.

Despite Duesbury’s patience and generosity lending him money to help with his debts, Spangler soon disappeared owing Duesbury and possibly others money. Later, on hearing he was back in London, Duesbury had him arrested. He was bailed from jail and allowed

A most troublesome man

to return to work at the factory until his debts were paid under very strict conditions. The conditions of his re-employment included:

■ Working the full hours at the factory.

■ Only receiving two thirds of his wages (the rest going to pay his debts).

■ Not working for any other person.

■ Not having more than half a day’s absence in any one week.

However, this arrangement didn’t last and one evening Spangler turned up at the lodgings of Duesbury’s friend Mr Hunter. As Mr Hunter describes in a letter to Duesbury:

“I saw him arrive in the most pitiful condition … he sat down to dinner with me and after dinner he went up into my room and begged to be left to take a little rest (being very ill). I good naturedly never intended to disturb him and thought him really asleep in my room! Till I went up at 11 o clock and found he was gone, and on looking round I found I missed several things which he has made free with to the amount of £4….I give up every thought of making any good of him”

Duesbury, being more hopeful perhaps than Mr Hunter, did hire Spangler again working under Lygo in London but things did not get better. Spangler’s work was not satisfactory and, in the end, Lygo despairingly wrote

to Duesbury explaining that Spangler was walking up to Derby to continue work in Derby, as Lygo put it, he may as well be walking as he is “doing nothing here”!

And that was the end of the story, Spangler disappeared whilst walking from London to Derby and was never seen again. Duesbury promoted another modeller Mr William Coffee who they had taken on in the expectation that they would lose Spangler. Coffee may not have been so talented, but he was a lot less trouble.

If you would like to visit the museum and explore more of our fascinating history, you can book here www.royalcrownderbymuseum.com

Though troublesome, Spangler's work was to an incredibly high standard.

One of a pair of figures modelled by Spangler.

Albany Lodge Live your best life

Whenever we look back at the history of Derby – and in particular defined areas of Derby –one thing that we often come across is just how much of a sense of community particular areas had. A great many of our memories seem to be based around our fellow inhabitants and bonds formed in our communities can give rise to memories which last a lifetime. Feeling part of a local community is incredibly beneficial as it reduces the sense of isolation that can pervade modern-day life and is very good for our mental health. In particular, as people get older – full disclosure the author will be fifty this year – it is the company of other likeminded people that is often most desired but hardest to find.

But what if it wasn’t hard to find? What if there was the option to have both that sense of community, as well as the reassurance that many of life’s everyday problems would be taken care of for you?

If you haven’t already noticed, the builders have been very busy at Kingsway in Derby recently and they’ve been busy constructing something wonderful – Albany Lodge – a community-driven development that helps its residents live a life free of lots of the everyday stresses of the world.

Albany Lodge is a brand-new development of one and two-bedroomed apartments designed specifically for the over 55s and Derby Uncovered was lucky enough to be given a guided tour of the development by Marie Buckingham – the Development’s Director. It was very quickly apparent when we met Marie that she cares deeply about the people who are seeking out apartments at the development and the quality of life that they deserve to have. Marie uses the expression ‘live your best life’ and it’s fair to say that if you lived at Albany Lodge, you’d be doing just that.

It’s also probably worth mentioning at this point – so that there’s no confusion – that Albany Lodge isn’t assisted living at all. It’s a development for fully independent over 55s who feel that they really do deserve to live a life with fewer everyday worries and stresses.

As Marie herself puts it, Albany Lodge is a place ‘where you're not having to maintain your own grounds, worrying about whether your roof is going to survive the next winter, worrying about your heating bills’ and that at Albany Lodge you can ‘come and live somewhere that's well insulated, where there's a great community and where you can be part of something’.

Regarding heating bills – a source of severe stress for many people – the apartments themselves are incredibly well insulated. This includes both double glazing and electric panel heating throughout, leading to a home that’s thoroughly energy efficient. Oh, and did we mention that the apartments are stunningly beautiful as well?

All of the apartments are finished to a high-standard and are both modern and stylish. All of the furniture you see is made in the UK and the kitchens are like the showroom kitchen you always wanted to have. Safety and security is also paramount with each apartment boasting a video door entry phone, serviced intruder alarm and a 24-hour emergency call out system as standard.

On top of that you have the Lodge Manager to call on if needed. You can even arrange for them to give you a daily call to check

in on you. As Marie put it ‘it’s not assisted living, but you know you’ve got somebody’. There are also no concerns if you’ve got pets – they’re welcome to move in with you on the proviso that they’re well behaved and there’s even a family and guest room that your visitors can stay in overnight if they want for a very reasonable £35 per night. Before we went on our tour with Marie we sat down to chat in the communal lounge at the development and its here in particular that the overarching aim to create a community shines. Beautifully furnished, very warm and welcoming, and with its own coffee station, it seems the perfect place to either relax with other residents or your own visitors. If you fancy something a little quieter though it’s no problem – there’s an onsite Quiet Lounge you can use. Don’t worry if you want to be more active either – the Activity Room and Fitness Suite have you covered there. Interestingly – as Marie explained to us –in the USA, New Zealand and Australia five to seven percent of people already live like this, whereas in the UK that figure is only 0.6% and part of that, I think, is about educating ourselves. We tend to only think of retirement living as assisted living and old people’s homes, and though these are very valuable and needed places, we’re very wrong if we think those are the only options.

Albany Lodge is creating its own community which is perfect for those of a certain age with plenty of aspirations to keep living vibrantly.

the city centre is less than a 10 minute drive away and you can be in the Peak District in just half an hour.

One-bedroomed apartments start from £232,950 and two-bedroomed ones from £309,950 so there’s every chance that if you’re downsizing, you’ll be making a small profit as well, so what’s to lose by looking into it?

Get in touch with Marie, or Pamela –their Senior Property Consultant –and I’m sure once you’ve had the guided tour that we did, you’ll be wanting to make the dream of a stress-free life within a wonderful community a reality.

Allow me to introduce myself…

My name is Kalwinder Singh Dhindsa. I am a writer, author, poet and creator. A proud Derby man. Born and raised in Pear Tree, Normanton.

I will be using my allocated space in the Derby Uncovered Newspaper to share my Derby related poetry and stories.

Every article will begin with a poem from my book Derby.

A Singh! A Singh! Look on the TV! Watching James Bond in Octopussy.

Kamal Khan's bodyguard and main henchman. A tall very strong, ruthless Sikh man. Gobinda's a Singh. He's one of us. We don't care. A turban, dark beard and an intimidating glare.

"That's Kabir Bedi", my father reveals. But wait there is something more amazing, his acting conceals.

Kabir is the son of Sister Palmo a.k.a Freda Bedi. She was born and raised in the town of Derby.

Supporter of suffrage and anti-war. The people of Derby know the score.

A Blue Plaque and Star. Rightly bestowed. Alice Ann Wheeldon of Pear Tree Road.

The poem above is from my first collection of Poetry called Pear Tree Rambler, a rambling love letter of sorts and thoughts to the city of Derby and it's wonderful folk.

A collection of poetry and prose, which follows the life of a Derby boy. Touching upon identity, community, culture and many other things that define and strengthen the man that I have become.

In this collection of poems each letter of the alphabet is dedicated to an iconic figure in the history of Derby.

In addition to this I will also include further poetry and information in relation to the iconic figure being shared.

In this issue I will share some of my poems in relation to women from Derby and their significant roles in our society and my life, in particular.

The poem above is from my collection of poetry called Pear Tree Rampage, a rambling love letter of sorts and thoughts to the city of Derby and it’s wonderful folk. It is my second collection of poetry and prose, which follows the life of a Derby boy. Touching upon identity, community, culture and many other things that define and strengthen the man that he has become.

I will finish off this piece with two last poems from my Pear Tree Rampart collection, a rambling love letter of sorts and thoughts to the city of Derby and it's wonderful folk.

A third collection of poetry and prose, which follows the life of a Derby boy. Touching upon identity, community, culture and many other things that define and strengthen the man that he has become.

Jasvinder Sanghera she broke the chain.

An end to forced marriage. A lifetime of pain.

A shame on the community! A social outcast?

Arranged marriage not forced. This evil can't last. Supporting victims of forced marriage and honour-based abuse. No more violence. This ends. Karma Nirvana let loose.

My parents were married for nigh on 30 years. Until my father could take no more. The voices. It appears.

A life cut short. Death by suicide. It's not been the same, since dad died. My mother took refuge in her faith to heal. A distraction of sorts but for me no appeal. My salvation lay in the City of Derby.

My place of birth my gateway to Pear Tree. That is where it all began. The seeds of love.

Thank you Ma.

If you’d like to see more about the books mentioned they can be found at Amazon - and don’t forget to check out the following:

www.khalsir.com www.twitter.com/KhalSir

www.facebook.com/PearTreeAuthor www.instagram.com/khalsir/

Letter

Osmaston A Volunteer Research Project

My name is Jayne Brown, and I am a volunteer at Derby Local Studies and Family History Library.

I am one of a small group of volunteers working on a history of the suburb of Osmaston. The impetus for this comes from the 100th anniversary of the first council houses to be built along Osmaston Park Road.

Our research to date has been quite wide ranging covering many aspects, including Osmaston at the time of the Doomsday Book, right through to modern transport links.

To do this we have been using the resources of the local studies library including maps, books, articles in newspapers, census records, and

the rate books for the houses in the area, to name but a few. Whilst looking at the early history of Osmaston before the houses were built, I found mention of the Leper Hospital of St Leonard which was situated around the area of the current Leonard Street at the top of Osmaston Road. Using “A History of the County of Derby Volume 2” in the series of books Victoria County History 1907, I was able to research what is known about this establishment. It was operational between 1171 to the mid 1300’s. This led to research on the history of leprosy in England and the reasons it died out, making leper hospitals obsolete.

Once this topic was completed, I researched the history of two parish churches which lie in the study area, St. Osmund’s and St. Bartholomew’s. They were both designed by an architect called Percy Heylyn Currey (1864- 1942) who in his lifetime was a well-known local architect with many commissions in and around Derby and Derbyshire. He was an architect who followed the

Arts and Crafts movement. It was interesting to look at the work of this man who was an important architect in Derby in his lifetime and left a legacy of buildings that is largely forgotten now. The areas of research which have been looked at by members of the group include the history of Osmaston Hall and its park and church - St James the Lesser, and the development of transport links, the schools in the area, the development of the industry and the housing itself. We have decided we don’t want to rehash areas of history that have already been well-researched, but we want to try and highlight the lesserknown history of Osmaston that relates to the lives of the people who have lived and worked in this area in the past and in the present day. We hope to have our research finished by the end of this year and

are thinking of ways to share this so as many people as possible can find out about the history of Osmaston. To discover the history of your community, visit Derby Local Studies and Family History Library, Riverside Chambers, Full St. Derby DE1 3AF. For opening times and visitor information visit the website or contact us: inderby.org.uk/libraries

A 1923 Ordnance Survey map showing the area as it was 100 years ago in 1923, immediately prior to the residential development of Osmaston Park Road. St Osmund’s church can be seen towards the top of the image, and Osmaston Hall is in the centre, the line of its drive is now Ascot Drive.

An undated view of Osmaston Hall.

St James the Lesser, in the grounds of Osmaston Hall. The growing needs of the parish led to the building of St Osmund’s in 1905.

Jayne studies the Victoria County History at the library.

Residential Care Home for the elderly

A hidden gem in the heart of Littleover

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As we pass the midsummer point and the first flush of flowers have gone the garden changes, and there can often be a gap before the late summer and autumn colours arrive. This is not so, however, at 9 Main Street, Horsley Woodhouse, a garden which was designed to look it’s best in August when there is time to enjoy the garden and farmland views, perhaps while indulging in a cream tea.

Terracing, borders, lawns and pergola create space for an informal layout with lots of colourful planting. The garden also features a large wildlife pond and bog garden.

All parts of the garden are accessible for wheelchair users and a wheelchair adapted WC is also available. Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome. This garden is open Sunday 6th of August from 1.30pm until 4.30pm and also ‘by arrangement’ for groups.

Meynell Langley Trials Garden, just 4 miles away from Derby supports the National Garden Scheme with several open days throughout the

summer and will be open again on Sunday the 27th of August and Sunday 17th of September from 10-4.

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Admission to the trials garden is just £5, children go free and dogs on leads are welcome too.

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Ingredients

■ 2 good fistfuls of Pelargonium 'Attar of Roses' leaves (as many as possible)

■ 3 unwaxed lemons

■ 900ml boiling water

■ 850g white sugar (granulated or caster)

■ 30g citric or tartaric acid (if you want to store it rather than drink it fresh, from the fridge)

Instructions

1. With a swivel potato peeler, cut thick ribbons of rind from the fruit, leaving the white pith behind.

2. Put the rind and pelargonium leaves into a heatproof bowl.

3. Add the sugar, pour over the boiling water and stir, keeping the water moving until the sugar has all dissolved.

4. Leave the mixture to cool and then add the juice from the lemons (and the citric acid if using) and leave everything to steep overnight.

5. Next day, strain the rind and leaves away and bottle the cordial. Don’t leave the rind any longer or the cordial will become bitter.

6. Serve – just a little in the bottom of a glass –diluted with still or sparkling water.

7. This will store for about a month in the fridge, or you can pour it into clean plastic milk cartons and freeze.

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In Issue 4 – and alongside some wonderful pictures from W. W Winter’s – we looked into some of the various layers of history relating to St. Peter’s Street in Derby. In this current issue we now move our focus and look into the Corn Market in Derby and the layers of history that can be found there. Once more we’ve been provided with some absolutely stunning pictures from W. W Winter’s to accompany the feature.

The Corn Market was first named in 1510, in the early 18th century it also had the alternative name of Great Street, and for many years, exactly as the name suggests, it was the location of a market for selling corn and other grains.

Though it is perhaps not something you’ve often thought about before, the end of the Corn Market which faces St Peter’s Street is noticeably wider and this was done deliberately in its construction. By being wider at this

end it would allow merchants and vendors to place samples of their grain in stoops – essentially bowls on top of posts – for prospective buyers to test before deciding whether to purchase. It was only when the Corn Exchange building was built in Albion Street and opened in 1862 that the Corn Market ceased to host these markets.

Included in its wide and varied history is the sad fact that its location plays a large part in the tragic story of PC Joseph Moss – the first, and so far only, police officer to

have been killed on active duty in Derby. The events which led to his death took place in 1879 and his assaillant, Gerald Mainwaring, had been staying at the former Royal Hotel on the corner of the Corn Market. When a drunken Gerald was arrested on July 12 of that year alongside Annie Green – a local woman who was reputedly a prostitute – for driving his horse and trap erratically, he was taken to the Derby Borough Police Lock-Up which was adjacent to the Corn Market in Lock-Up Yard. Unknown to the arresting officers, he was also armed with a revolver which he pulled out and fired four shots within a room only around 8 feet by 10 feet in size. PC Joseph Moss was fatally wounded and died the next day.

Though the grand design of the Royal Hotel is still visible today, another historic Corn Market building hasn’t been so lucky and has only partially survived –Devonshire House.

The house was built in the mid-18th century as the Derby town house of the Dukes of Devonshire. The house suffered a slow and gradual decline in social status which was prompted in c.1814 when the 6th Duke of Devonshire chose to stay in alternative accommodation when in town. Devonshire House was ultimately converted into retail and commercial use with shops moving into the ground floor rooms with a market hall built on the gardens – a pre-1864 Market Hall. Nowadays only four bays of the house survive as the remainder was demolished in 1969, to be replaced by a Littlewood's Store (now Primark).

A view of the corner of the Corn Market and St. James Street. T. E. Yeoman's the tobacconist is on the corner.

A wonderful shot of the Corn Market around 1914.

Derby Corn Market

Layers and layers of history

Of course, regular Derby Uncovered readers will also know of the Corn Market as the location of Derby’s first Council Gaol. A gaol that was built alongside the then-exposed Markeaton Brook. This was a plan that inevitably led to disaster in 1610 when a sudden rising of the brook drowned three prisoners who were trapped in their cells.

In the case of the Corn Market, it’s not just above the ground that the history resides, but below ground too. Opposite St James Street, in Lock-up Yard is the Tiger Bar. Previously much larger and known as the Tiger Inn, it dates from 1737 when the frontage was on the Corn Market itself. The Tiger Bar itself has an access point into barrel-vaulted tunnels that run beneath the Guildhall. The purpose of the tunnels was to take prisoners from the police station in Lock-up Yard to the Guildhall where the Courts of Assize were held. One of the most well-known prisoners who took this route was Alice Wheeldon who was sentenced to serve ten years for her alleged part in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Lloyd George in 1917. There are still efforts being made to this day to clear her name from what very much appears to be a miscarriage of justice.

a firm favourite. A mention of the Kardomah Café will immediately bring back evocative memories for many, while some of Derby’s senior citizens will have memories of the Old Angel or the Rose and Crown.

As it was for many people with St. Peter’s Street, their memories of the Corn Market will be tied to the shops, cafés and inns that were once there. Shops such as Cox and Malin, Maypole and Ratners will be remembered by many, and based on a recent post on our social media, the beautifully tiled branch of Sainsbury’s was also

Ticking all the boxes, it is also said to be a hotspot of ghostly activity in the city centre with various ghostly sightings reported including that of a small boy in the former Royal Bank of Scotland building on the corner of the Corn Market that leads into the Market Place. During building works there in the 1970s three workmen who were tasked with demolishing walls in the buildings basements found a hidden cavity during their work in which a small boy was sitting in ragged clothing. When the workman asked the boy where he had come from, he received the reply: “I’ve come from the inn.” It is thought that perhaps this referred to the Tiger Inn, but regardless the boy was spotted multiple times over the years, appearing before disappearing, in not only the newly-erected

As with our previous article on St. Peter’s Street there’s of course lots more history in the Corn Market and as before we hope this little taster leaves you with the desire to find out more.

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Royal Bank of Scotland, but also in the neighbouring Acropolis Café.

A busy view of the Corn Market c.1928.

An elevated view of the Corn Market c.1935.

Looking down towards the Corn Market from the bottom of St. Peter's Street c.1925.

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Summer at Haddon Hall

Enjoy a wonderful summer of parkland events, live music, and tours at Haddon Hall and Haddon Medieval Park.

Throughout the summer, Haddon’s Medieval Park has a number of events available, including its Parkland Walks. Taking place on August 12th and September 9th and 16th, Parkland Walks provide a wonderful insight into this inspiring landscape and a rare chance to go behind-thescenes into the normally private parkland that surrounds Haddon Hall. Walking at a gentle pace, with plenty of opportunities for observation and photography, our friendly guides, all experienced historians and/

or ecologists, will share their knowledge of the plants and animals that live within the Medieval Park, as well as providing fascinating information about how the parkland was used for the support of the Hall and its household from the 14th Century.

On August 26th, visitors can also partake in a Wildlife Walk: The Butterflies and Meadow Life of Haddon Medieval Park. A recent survey found 26 different butterfly species fluttering around the Park’s flowers, grasses and trees, including the Wall Brown, White Lesser Hairstreak, Purple Hairstreak and Small Heath, all priority conservation species. In this exclusive event, renowned butterfly naturalist Steve Orridge will take visitors behind the scenes into the private parkland that surrounds Haddon Hall.

In the hall itself, live music performances continue throughout the summer, which are included in the visitor admission fee. Informal recitals are held at 12pm and 2pm

on selected days, allowing visitors to make the most of the day with lunch, tea, or both in the Haddon Restaurant. Performances in the summer are taking place on 30th July, 6th August, 3rd September and 10th September.

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Before his time limited Executed for returning home early from transportation

individual. Every time it was a simple factual update on the situation. A week later the next factual update was something that Thomas surely hoped fell under the heading of ‘no news is good news’.

If I could give anybody any advice when it comes to researching local history – not that you’re under any obligation to follow it of course – it would be learning to accept that no matter how much you dig and search, there will be some things you might never find out or know.

Of course, it is the gems that you find after extensive research and hard toil that makes the failures easier to bear, but at the same time, I really did have to accept when I researched this piece that I’d probably never find out anything substantial about the person who was Thomas Hulley.

The irony is that when I started work on this piece I wasn’t originally searching for information about Thomas Hulley. I was looking for a true story that I could use to show how the local newspapers of old –specifically the Derby Mercury - reported local events. I’d searched various events from our past for something suitable – from extreme weather to execution reports – before my eyes were caught by a line of text that I’d read various times before for other research projects.

11. Thomas Hulley, for returning from transportation, 1757.

The line was always number 11 in a list of executions in Derby from 1732 onwards, that the Derby Mercury often printed when reporting on the latest addition to the list, and this time I resolved to find out more about this event.

The first mention I found of Thomas was in the Derby Mercury in August 1754. There was no article specifically about him, merely a brief paragraph in a report on the Derby Assizes from August 14 of that year.

Thomas had been convicted of stealing several pieces of dressed leather from a shop in Baslow and he’d been sentenced to be transported for seven years. In many ways Thomas had, I suppose, been lucky. It wasn’t uncommon for people to be hanged for stealing – thirteen years before William Elliott had suffered that fate in Derby – but being transported was still no easy ride.

Though many people generally associate convicts being transported to Australia, before 1776 convicts sentenced to transportation were sent to North America and the West Indies. Thanks to the sterling work of Anne Bull –her work on transportation can be found at www.derby. gov.uk/derbyhistory – it was easy enough to find out that Thomas had been sent to North America.

Transported convicts were often chained up by leg irons on board convict ships, and with conditions on the journey often cramped, some convicts died on the way. Once they arrived, they were put to hard physical work and it was not uncommon for a convict to be whipped and punished if they disobeyed rules.

Within three years - as we can see from the Derby Mercury on March 25, 1757 – Thomas had escaped his sentence, returned back to England and had been caught and sentenced for his crime. This time the sentence was death. He was one of two people to receive the death penalty at the Assizes in that session. The other was Thomas Ratcliff.

Sadly however, in this instance it wasn’t the case. Later that month, on April 22, 1757, the newspaper printed the update that his attempted reprieve had been unsuccessful.

Within a week – as we can see in this excerpt from the Derby Mercury – Thomas Ratcliff had already received a reprieve and by the tone of the article it seemed that a reprieve was quite likely a possibility for Thomas Hulley too.

As you can see, nothing that was reported at the time gave any indication to just who Thomas was as an

Perhaps the request for a coffin gave an indication for his motive for his initial crime of stealing. Many people in that era lived a life of poverty. Ultimately, we will never truly know, as we will probably never know anything else about Thomas the person.

A simple paragraph in the paper told the last we know of his story. It wasn’t even original copy from the Derby Mercury – they’d reprinted it from the London Gazette.

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1 The Friary was a townhouse built in 1731 by Samuel Crompton. A Priory of Dominican Friars, founded before 1239 and dissolved in 1539, once stood on the site where the townhouse was built. The buildingwhich was extended in 1760 and again in 1875 and the 1950s - was home to the Boden family - who were leading figures in the temperance movement of the time - from 1873 to 1922.

2 The beheaded remains of Jeremiah Brandreth, Isaac Ludlam and William Turner are buried in an unmarked grave in St. Werburgh’s Churchyard. All three men were found guilty of high treason as ringleaders of the Pentrich Revolution in 1817. Originally sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered, their sentence was commuted to them being hanged until they were dead and then beheaded. The sentence took place outside the County Gaol on Friar Gate.

3 The Derby Museum and Art Gallery has a stone sarcophagus that was found when St Alkmund's Church was demolished in 1968 to make way for the ring road. It was almost certainly made as a shrine for the body of St Alkmund soon after he was killed in AD 800, and St. Alkmund is now the official patron saint of Derby.

4 The statue of Michael Thomas Bass MP commemorates his generosity in donating the Derby Museum and Art Gallery to the town. The statue was almost lost to the Second World War when – without consultation – the then curator of the Derby Museum and Art Gallery, in response to a call for scrap metal, sold the statue to a scrap metal dealer for £27. It was only when a passer-by saw the head of the statue over a fence that this came to light. After a public outcry the statue was reinstated.

5 Derby’s Gaol once stood here next to the thenexposed Markeaton Brook. The historian William Hutton (1723-1815) wrote that ‘our ancestors erected the chief gaol in a river, exposed to damp and filth, as if they meant to drown the culprit before they hanged him’. His words were incredibly apt as in 1610 a sudden rising of the brook during the night drowned three of the captive prisoners.

6 PC Joseph Moss was fatally shot here in the Derby Borough Police Lock-Up in 1879. The gunman - Gerald Mainwaring – was sentenced to death. It was then disclosed that the jury had been spilt into two groups of six, one of which wanted a verdict of manslaughter, and the other wanted a verdict of wilful murder. With the chairman of the jury refusing to deliver a decision, lots were drawn for a new chairman who declared it was wilful murder. With the press claiming Gerald’s fate had been decided by the ‘toss of a coin’, his death sentence was commuted to 15 years in prison.

7 The Reform Bill Riots that erupted in cities including Derby started in the Market Place in October 1831. The riots spread across the town and at one point during the riots the gaol on Friar Gate was stormed resulting in twenty-three prisoners being freed. Across the road from the site of the gaol you can find a series of sculpted heads. These heads represent condemned prisoners emerging from underground cells into the light during the riot.

8 Almost all the current buildings on Sadler Gate date back several centuries. The Old Bell Hotel was originally a majestic coaching inn and dates back to 1650. It was considered to be one of the most prestigious coaching inns outside of London and was used as the main stop off point for stagecoaches travelling across the country.

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9 Bonnie Prince Charlie arrived here at The George Inn in 1745 – now Jorrocks – as part of his plan to invade Great Britain along with his Jacobite followers and remove the Hanoverian 'usurper' George II. Upon his arrival he demanded billets for 9000 men. The Derbyshire Blues, a Militia regiment raised in Derby by the Duke of Devonshire in response to the invasion, had left Derby to its fate upon news of the imminent arrival of the Prince’s army.

10 The Cathedral tower was built between 1510 and 1530. In 1732 Robert Cadman attached a rope from the top of the tower to St. Michaels Church and walked down it. A few years later someone attached a rope from the top of the tower to the bottom of St. Mary’s Gate and walked down it –carrying a donkey!

11 Both John Flamsteed and Joseph Wright –two important Derbeians – lived at the Old Clockworks. John was the very first Astronomer Royal and Joseph was a locally and globally renowned artist. In the late 18th century, the house was home to John Whitehurst, a cofounder of the Lunar Society, who is said to have entertained Benjamin Franklin here.

12 The 18th century extension at the rear of Ye Olde Dolphin Inne was originally a doctor’s house and a place where he would dissect bodies including recently executed criminals. According to local legend the doctor went down into the cellar one morning after the delivery of a body and upon removing its shroud, found them still alive.

13 The mural on the side of the Silk Mill Pub contains a reference to Shrovetide Football in Derby. Shrovetide Football used to be actively played in Derby with the large St. Peter’s parish taking on the combined might of the smaller parishes of All Saints, St Michael’s, St Alkmund’s and St Werburgh’s. It was in 1846 that Mayor William Eaton Mousley ultimately banned the playing of the game, bringing in specially swornin constables and a mounted body of the 5th Dragoon Guards to ensure that no game would be played.

14 The Derby Silk Mill is on the site of the world’s first factory and is part of the UNESCO inscribed Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage site. One of the founders of the first factory – John Lombe – stole the secret silk-throwing machinery technology used by the Italians for the factory. He was allegedly assassinated by poisoning for his troubles!

15 Full Street was the site of a gruesome murder in 1774 when Mary Vickers was murdered during a burglary committed by Matthew Cocklayne and George Foster. Though both men fled to Ireland and carried on with their criminal ways, Foster was ultimately shot in the head during a robbery and Cocklayne was captured. Upon his capture it was found out that he was wanted in Derby, and he was returned there to stand trial where he was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Once hanged Matthew’s remains were gibbeted at Bradshaw Hay – near to the presentday Bradshaw Way - in Derby.

16 Derby had it’s very own Noah – with his very own Ark. Noah Bullock built an ark in the 1600’s to hide his counterfeiting and clipping activities from the prying eyes of the law. His ark was eventually raided but Noah avoided the death penalty. Instead, he agreed to dismantle his ark and end his nefarious ways. He eventually died of old age.

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1 The Corn Market is wider at one end than the other for a very deliberate reason. It was constructed like this so as to be able to accommodate the old Grain Market. As people entered the market through the wider end, merchants would place samples of grain in containers sited on posts so that potential buyers could test them before purchasing.

2 The section of Victoria Street that linked what is now the end of St. James’ Street and the intersection of the Corn Market at St. Peter’s Street was originally called Brookside due to the open and exposed waterway of the Markeaton Brook flowing through the town. By 1841 the brook had been covered with a brick culvert and Victoria Street came into being.

3 Sadler Gate takes it name from the leather workers who used to ply their trade in the area hundreds of years ago in Derby’s Viking past. ‘Gate’ is from the Norse word ‘geata’, which meant street in their language - hence it means street of the leather workers.

4 Locally and globally renowned artist Joseph Wright was born on Iron Gate in the Cathedral Quarter. His works are on display locally at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery and globally at The Hermitage in St Petersburg, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia.

5 The Guildhall you see in the Market Place now, was built because the previous one burned down in 1841. It has only been in place for thirteen years when this happened. It was rebuilt to a design by Henry Duesbury and at one time the Guildhall was the home of the Council Chamber and police cells.

6 St. Mary’s Gate took its name from the ancient church of St. Mary, one of the six churches in Derby recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086. Remains were discovered in 1925 showing that the church once stood on the corner of St. Mary's Gate and Queen Street. There is no record of the church after 1535.

7 The Museum of Making is on the site of the former Derby Silk Mill. The Silk Mill was generally regarded as the first fully mechanised factory ever recorded when it was built in 1717 to 1721.

8 Ye Olde Dolphin Inne is Derby’s oldest pub dating back to 1530. Reputedly a stopping-off point for highwaymen including Dick Turpin, the Dolphin is also the site of various alleged hauntings including a boy that sits on the stairs and a Grey Lady that haunts the premises.

9 Many of the photographs taken of Victorian Derby were taken by Richard Keene and Richard had a studio on Iron Gate in Derby. One of Richard’s sons –Alfred – went on to paint many wonderful views of old Derby that people still love today.

10 A plaque in the Wardwick commemorates the flood levels after immense flooding to the town centre in 1842. Though flood defences were improved, in 1932 an even worse flood arrived and overwhelmed them, once again flooding the town centre.

’’ My mum passed away suddenly so we needed to sort out care for my dad urgently as he has dementia. The ladies at Spectrum were amazing. They made suggestions about visits and a routine for Dad, which wasn’t about making money but what was best for Dad. They go above and beyond, keep us updated, review care plans, bring Dad treats, take him out and coaxing him to do what is needed whilst always being respectful and kind. It’s only a small team, the staff are consistent so, Dad has been able to build a rapport with them, and so have we. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them and frequently do to anyone I can. The role they have is invaluable to us, and they really supported us while we dealt with Mum’s death. If you’re looking for carers who treat your loved ones as if they were part of their own family, are experienced and competent and speak to you like human beings, this is the company for your care needs - and no, I’m not related to any of them, and they didn’t pay me!

’’ After a 4-month stay in the hospital, I was discharged home. I am still very weak and unsteady on my feet, so my family and myself decided to find carers to help me wash and dress in the morning and get me into bed at night. My daughter spoke to Spectrum, and straight away, she loved their happy, friendly and helpful demeanour. After a meeting with them, I decided to try them out. I am absolutely thrilled to bits with the service that I’m receiving. The girls who visit me are always on time and always have a happy smile on their faces; they treat me with dignity and compassion. Nothing is too much trouble for them. If I want anything done, I only have to ask. The girl's attention to detail is fantastic; they are trustworthy and thorough and are becoming good friends.

Hospital Kingsway Kingsway

In the latest instalment of wonderful articles and history from Mark Miley, owner of Derby in Pictures – www.derbyinpictures.com – he looks at the history of the Kingsway Hospital.

For close to 150 years Kingsway Hospital has been tending to the mental health needs of the people of Derby from its site on the Rowditch.

The main entrance and reception of the hospital.

Mental Health care was originally carried out at a private asylum on Green Lane catering for paying clients. For everyone else, though, the only care available was in Leicester, Burntwood or nearby Pastures built in 1849. As early as 1863 recommendations had been made to build an asylum for the Borough, however it was only when the three hospitals announced they would no longer accept patients from Derby that authorities were forced to act.

After considering several sites they finally agreed on the Rowditch and advertised for architects to submit plans for a 300bed unit.

There were 150 submissions, and the winning design was by Benjamin S Jacobs from Hull. Built in red brick in the popular neo-Jacobean style, the hospital had an administration block at its entrance with the wards ranged out behind. They had large windows and were positioned so that they all benefited from sunshine at some point during the day and were

all named after Derbyshire towns and villages. There were extensive grounds to enable patients to walk around, a cricket pitch, flower beds, many trees and a farm which included a piggery and herd of cattle, supplying milk and meat to the asylum

The hospital opened in 1888 as the Borough Lunatic Asylum and the first Medical Superintendent was a Dr Rutherford McPhail.

Over the years Kingsway was at the forefront of a number of advances in patient care, including being the first asylum in the UK to appoint a dedicated team who sought to find convalescent patients work in the community prior to their discharge.

In 1908 the name of the hospital was changed to Derby Mental Hospital and it acquired the name Kingsway in 1938.

With the retirement of Dr McPhail in 1920, the innovative ideas of the hospital continued under Dr Bain who adopted an experimental regime which enabled

patients to have a little more freedom. The locking of doors was relaxed, and some patients were also allowed outside the asylum grounds and given pocket money if they worked within the asylum or its farms.

For many years patients had found employment in these farms, however by 1956 attitudes had changed and there was a belief that it was exploitative. As a result, the Minister for Health ordered their closure resulting in a loss of employment for the patients. In part to make up for this a bowling green and miniature golf course were constructed

By the end of the 1980s government policy was to encourage Care in the Community and to promote the closure of these large institutions, however Kingsway hung on. Although efforts were made to save the buildings and grounds demolition finally came in 2011 to be replaced by a 700-home housing estate called Manor Kingsway

Interestingly, when researching this topic many of the source’s state that the hospital closed in 2009. Although many of the old buildings were, indeed demolished the hospital remains open in modern buildings, albeit on a muchreduced site carrying on the business of caring for people in mental distress at its site on the Rowditch.

A 1930s addition, Bramblebrook was originally the Nurses Home and then later the Trust offices.

At the back of the hospital was the chapel and theatre.

Nutrition And Retreat Time to reflect, re-energise and be inspired…

by Marta Zaremba-Marsden ANutr

The summer is now in full swing, and we have been blessed with unusually good weather for the UK. The heat brings many social events, including barbeques, trips to the pub and garden parties. We have a great time, joyfully sharing a pint and a chat with friends. Alcohol tickles our hunger hormones and with plenty of food supplied, advertised and promoted, we just can’t resist. We are all in and just want to have fun. Without realising, we can start to overindulge in alcohol and treats that we may have been more careful about earlier on in the year. With the excuse of summer socialising, should we throw caution to the wind and eat as much as we like?

In the last couple of editions of Derby Uncovered I wrote about two of the nutrition T’s: time and type. In this article, I focus on the final T – total. How much do we eat in a day? When we try to recall our daily consumption, it is easy to forget some of the quick on the go snacks; or we may think that a portion of food was not as big as it really was. Generally, people tend to underestimate their total daily intake, which in turn, may lead to confusion around any weight gain.

Health Survey for England reports since the 1990s clearly show an upward trend in obesity figures, with 26% of adults in England being classed as obese in 2021. This can be linked to the type of food we eat, but it is also correlated with the amount of food and drink that we consume. Public Health England reported in 2018 (‘Calorie reduction: The scope and ambition for action’) that it’s estimated that on average all adults overconsumed by 196 kcal per day and obese adults by 323 kcals per day. This is a lot of food and energy that has to be stored somewhere and it normally stays in our bodies as fat.

To maintain a stable weight, the calculation is simple – energy in has to equal energy out. If we want to lose a few pounds, we either need to exercise

more or eat less. There are some other factors like genetics, health conditions, sleep quality, stress levels, but the basic calculation is a good starting point. Without going through very specialised tests to measure our metabolic rates and tedious detailed food diaries to capture everything we consume; we need to rely on our innate gauge. This is about being aware of quantity of food in relation to feelings of fullness. i.e., eating mindfully.

In January I suggested keeping a food mood diary. When you look back at it, do you notice any times that you ate to perhaps satisfy an emotion rather than hunger? For example, there may be times where we may eat due to boredom or sadness rather than really feeling hungry. Although, a temporary comfort, in the long run emotional eating does not deal with the root cause, and can result in eating more than we need. In a similar way, we may eat to be social rather than for fuel. For example, if a colleague brings treats to work, or if you go for a coffee with a friend and decide to add a pastry, or the summer parties with food galore. We need to be mindful of these situations, and pause to think if an extra snack or meal is really required to sustain you. Often thirst is mistaken for hunger, so reach for some water or a cuppa first before you decide.

The society we live in is packed with marketing and promotions that can easily trick us into buying more than we need, especially when we go food shopping on an empty stomach. We eat with our eyes and are drawn to comfort foods which tend to contain more sugars, saturated fats and salt. Our children are influenced by what they see on social media or TV commercials so may apply pressure on us to buy

certain brands or order specific takeaways. Time pressures may also lead us to buy ready meals so that we can have dinner on the table as soon as we are back home. These choices may impact on how much we put on our plates, which then leads us to overeating as we don’t want to waste anything. Addressing strategies of the big corporations is beyond our control, but planning our shopping and cooking ahead is. There are some tools and tricks to help with this:

Try following recipes that have shopping lists, as these have set ingredient quantities for a specified number of people. This will assist in choosing the right foods and amounts needed for a meal. If you prefer to buy in bulk, then pick foods that can be stored for a while or frozen, rather than those which have to be eaten immediately.

Portion control plates are a handy guide to show the split of vegetables, dairy products, grains and meat quantities when dishing up a meal. These plates are readily available to buy from many homeware shops. Maybe begin to dish up smaller portions in the first place, it may be surprising that seconds are not needed.

If feeling full during a meal, consider stopping and saving the leftovers for the following days lunch, rather than worrying about a clean plate. This could save on overall meal costs as well as portion sizes. Make sure you stay hydrated, especially with the heat, to avoid hunger pangs when you need some fluid and electrolytes. Make eating a celebration and an event, rather than a hasty stopgap. Enjoy and savour what you are eating, and even discuss it with others around the table. This will slow down your meal, enabling more awareness. This can be fully incorporated into summer socialising!

Start your mindful eating journey today.

■ Ever arrived home, and realised you can’t remember the drive home? Yep – the subconscious got you there – and hopefully a little of the conscious!

■ When was the last time you made a conscious decision to breathe? Umm… A long time ago – maybe never – that’s that good old subconscious again. So, by my reckoning any one can go into hypnosis – if they want to –because when you go into hypnosis that’s what we access and speak toour subconscious.

I have been studying hypnotherapy since January and what a voyage of discovery that has been – mostly self-discovery. I won’t lie, I used to class hypnotherapy as some new age weirdo thing, but if you’ve ever heard the phrase “the power of the mind”, well I’ve learned all about that. I have learned about how the mind is made up, how it is formed, the difference between the conscious and subconscious mind – and what a difference there is!

Hypnotherapists are just facilitators – good ones and well trained –but clients do the work, but only if they want to.

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You’re in hypnosis most of the time!

I’ve added hypnotherapy to my list of self-care and now I have received hypnotherapy as well as studied it, I am able to self-hypnotise myself. I’ve realised that all the self-development and coaching and counselling I’ve had to date has been invaluable, but what hypnotherapy does is get right to the heart of what has been holding you back, sabotaging your efforts; and that’s because the subconscious forms before we are six years old. It’s a very literal being. It does not know reason or how to be rational. It doesn’t recognise negatives either. So, if you have been really working hard to change some behaviours but it hasn’t quite worked, and at extreme times you find yourself falling back into “old patterns” of

behaviour – maybe it’s time to look at those deep down, learned beliefs and behaviours.

I’m now a person who can eat in a healthy and balanced way, I’m back at the gym, getting my steps in on a regular basis. And when I have challenging situations which raise emotions – I can handle and process them. But the amazing thing is that I don’t have the same reactions to events and words that used to be my triggers. I’m not perfect, but I have moved on.

As TV’s most experienced, highest ranking and most decorated SAS leader and SAS instructor Mark “Billy” Billingham says, “Always a little further”; As I say “ONWARDS!”

I call myself a change coach and consultant – and any kind of change, personal or work related. I’ve worked across the public and private sectors, in various roles, but most recently worked in big change projects, often where IT systems are being changed, supporting programme directors keep everything on track. And over that time, I saw that people beats process every single time. But quite often people are an afterthought. I work hard to remind people involved in and leading big change projects that if you don’t involve and take people with you, your project won’t achieve the benefits you need it to. On an individual basis, change can often be hard – get yourself change fit with me. I work with individuals and organisations to make sure change is prepared, planned, and managed to ensure the right outcomes for all. One of my offerings is one to one coaching and I now have space for 2 new coaching clients. I’m also on the look-out for hypnotherapy case studies to support my hypnotherapy qualification which I aim to achieve in October – reach out!

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That might shock you but most “brain experts” would agree that “probably 95% of all cognition, all the thinking that drives our decisions and behaviours… occurs unconsciously” (Harvard Business Review):

Since it was published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never gone out of print with the book also translated into multiple languages – ironically considering the subject matter putting it on a par with the bible in terms of popularity – and has seen over 200 movies to date featuring the Count in a major role.

Next year will also see the centenary of the stage adaptation of Dracula and its debut wasn’t in the glitzy West End of London but in Derby – at the Grand Theatre on Babington Lane to be precise.

The stage play itself was written by the Irish actor and playwright Hamilton Deane and was the first authorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel.

In the almost 100 years that have passed since its debut on the stage,

people’s sensibilities have of course shifted substantially. Nowadays countless horror films are available at the mere click of a button on platforms such as Netflix, but it was a different world in 1924. So different in fact that for Dracula’s initial threenight run precautionary measures were taken with a nurse patrolling the aisles to aid terror-stricken members of the audience!

The premier itself took place on Thursday May 15, 1924 - tickets would have set you back anything between 8d to 3/6 (three shillings and sixpence) - and the following day it was met with an enthusiastic review in the Derby Daily Telegraph. Described as a ‘noteworthy production’ it was said that when the curtains fell just after 11pm ‘half the audience were in a frenzy of applause, while the remainder were in a state of nervous prostration’. One of the compliments paid by the newspaper succeeded in praising the production highly whilst still managing to take a dig at the horror genre generally when it said that while, ‘under the spell of the breathless action and excellent acting one forgets the absolute twaddle to which one is listening. The utter drivel of were-wolves, vampires, and undead, which provokes nothing but laughter in the sane light of day, becomes dreadful reality in the awful semi-darkness of the stage.’ Derby was just the beginning of the story for the stage adaptation of Dracula. This production toured England for three years before settling in London. The Little Theatre in the Adelphi hosted

the play first from February 14, 1927 with the need to accommodate larger audiences leading to it being transferred firstly to the Duke of York’s Theatre and then onto the Prince of Wales Theatre. In that very same year the play was brought to Broadway by producer Horace Liveright and this would have come as no surprise to Hamilton Deane who had received two enquiries from America by 11.30am on the morning after its debut in Derby!

Of course, the next natural progression was for Dracula to move onto the silver screen – and as mentioned at the start of the article - there have been countless films made. Nevertheless, each and every one of those films can trace their origins back to the stage adaptation and that my friends, began in Derby.

When Bram Stoker wrote the classic horror story ‘Dracula’ in 1897 he would have never, even in his most optimistic moments, have anticipated the cultural phenomenon that would follow his tale about the evil Count.

The Grand Theatre on Babington Lane, Derby.

Photo by Dinu J Nair on Unsplash.

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Maze 52 is about to embark on its third year! We have 2 mazes, one mini maze and one big maze. We have added in a new dog walk by popular demand. ��

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Families Create

Families and young people's workshops including Creative craft, digital, photography & filmmaking

Exhibitions

Create My World: Nature from 22nd July –3rd September

Free family friendly exhibition on the theme of nature, world building & exploration. Explore an evolving, virtual world populated with creatures & plant life and interactive artworks, created by Gallery visitors.

QUAD Café bar

Open 10am daily serving coffee, cake, milkshakes and Kids meals from £4.95.

Three Bears

Pick your own sunflowers, enjoy the climbing frame and sandpit, we have covered and uncovered seating, a big straw tower and new games to enjoy such as giant noughts and crosses, splat the rat and much more!

Prices £6 per person, £22 family ticket

Open Wednesday to Sundays through August, including Bank Holidays.

Location: Ednaston, near Ashbourne (what3words: kettles.prettiest.hotspots)

Full details at www.maze52.com

QUAD invites you to Create My World this Summer

Join us in a festival of family activities during the summer holidays, featuring hands-on and virtual activities, cinema screenings and special Café offers.

Fun, food & films for Families

Cine Kids – Films for a Fiver!

Daily family-friendly cinema screenings during the six-weeks holiday, including Elemental, Barbie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem!, Harold and the Purple Crayon and more. Cine Kids tickets £5 per family member

Cookery Workshop

Friday 1st September

Derby Summer Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2023

Derby Feste

Derby City Council is thrilled to announce the launch of 'Derby Summer Holiday Activities and Food Programme 2023'. It's going to be a citywide extravaganza filled with exciting adventures and cool learning activities for all the awesome kids and young people from Reception to Year 11 who are eligible for free school meals. This incredible free summer programme is funded by the Department for Education Holiday Activities and Food programme (HAF) and is being organised by Community Action Derby, with full support from Derby City Council. They've got it all figured out to make this summer unforgettable!

Twycross Zoo

Twycross Zoo has launched a brand-new ticket offer to support visitors during the cost-of-living crisis. From July 2023, visitors can pay for a day and visit FREE for 12 months and enjoy the value of a whole year of wild fun. Twycross Zoo’s new annual ticket, which differs to its current annual membership, is a pre-book only ticket that must be purchased online in advance of visiting. At only £25 per adult and £19 per child, a whole year of visits costs as little as £1.43 per month. Visitors can also save 10% on this price, when they book up to a day in advance.

Buxton Opera House

The Tiger Who Came To Tea Mon 14 – Wed 16 Aug 2023

Direct from the West End, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show, The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns on tour. The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don't expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger!

Join the tea-guzzling tiger in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos. Don't miss this stunning stage adaptation of the classic tale of teatime mayhem... expect to be surprised!

A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood.

Get ready to have a blast with our 29 activity providers who include Engineered Learning, AM Sports, Nadia Jane Performing Arts, Bramble Brook Holiday Club, Aspire, Genius Tuition, Vox Feminarum, Enthusiasm Trust, Open Doors, Derby County Community Trust, Fusion Scape, Premier Education, Shining Stars, Baby People, Alvaston Achievers, Everyone Active, Derwent Stepping Stones, and many more. They're all here to make this the best summer ever!

Just hop on over to the Derby City Council web page at derby.gov.uk/derbyhaf. There, you'll find all the fantastic details on how families can join the Summer HAF programme and book the most amazing activities for their kids. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity!

Based on the book by Judith Kerr. Booking tickets: www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk or call the Box Office on 01298 72190

The modern-day Mr. Arkwright

On a sunny day – just as it was when we visited the store – there’s probably not many places in Derby more beautiful than Darley Abbey itself. I’d imagine that even in the rain the beauty of the place stands out, and as I strolled down the steep slope of Park Lane, I couldn’t help but notice that the wonderful way Graham had organised his displays outside the shop had added to and accentuated that beauty.

To the right of the door outside the windows stood some gorgeous looking plants and on the left a lovely selection of fruit and vegetables. I obviously wasn’t alone in thinking how eye-catching the displays were as I spotted a woman who was walking past the shop, stop spontaneously to look at the displays, before taking some peppers inside to buy.

The shop itself is a good-size – which is handy as Graham has lots of sizeable plans. He genuinely is a modern-day Mr. Arkwright and is intent on making sure the shop isn’t just a ‘convenience’ store but a store that offers all things to all people.

There are plenty of examples in the store where Graham demonstrates that it is possible for a local shop to offer both the upmarket and budget options – the fridge counters on the way to the till are a great example of this, with selections from both ends of the cost spectrum, and those with limited mobility need not worry either - there was a whole selection of shopping boxes being filled for those who needed their food delivered. Oh, and if you fancy a coffee or hot chocolate while you’re there, I can personally vouch that the coffees are amazing from the new state-of-the-art machine!

I think the strength of it all is that Graham’s shop is fiercely independent. It’s not part of a chain such as Londis or one of supermarkets’ smaller offerings such as Sainsbury’s Local. Graham can follow his instincts and his heart and that’s just what he is doing.

As well as his obviously excellent instincts – sales are very good indeed –Graham isn’t shy of putting in the hard yards. Whilst the shop is Graham’s living, it is also very apparent that it’s also a passion project. Whether on the phone or in person this passion shines out every time he speaks. He really does want to make a difference to people’s quality of life locally and he isn’t afraid to put in the hard work to make sure that happens.

It was also noticeable that his entire crew of staff were all happy too, and while I was there, it was great to see that each and every one of them wore

Abbey Store

a genuine smile and seemed very content. It’s not hard to see why either because Graham’s obvious enthusiasm and passion really shines through and it feels like this is just the start of something very special indeed.

Graham has lots of plans and I think that over time people are going to be both astounded and pleasantly amazed as to just what can be achieved in a local shop. We’ve all got a little bit used to the bland ‘convenience store’ shops of the modern era but what Graham is doing is both brilliant and also old-fashioned. It’s a true community shop with friendly customer service. I’d suggest you buckle up because the journey of the modern-day Mr. Arkwright has only just begun.

By the time this issue of the newspaper comes out, it will have been a couple of months since we first looked at the history of the Darley Abbey Store and the transformation that owner Graham Mulholland has undertaken in order to make the shop the heartbeat of its community. We had so much feedback about the last article that we decided it was a good idea to give you all an update.

To avoid bad company The true story of a man who escaped the hangman once…but not twice.

I believe that the further back we travel in time, the more difficult it is to put ourselves into someone else’s shoes.

Life was so different the further back we go, with poverty much more severe and widespread and people’s everyday lives and motivations were influenced by the harsher environment in which they lived.

That being said, I’d still like to think that if one of our ancestors came incredibly close to being executed, they’d learn a lesson from it and try their hardest to never be in that situation again.

Of course, the whole point of this article is that on occasions this assumption would be wrong. In the case of Thomas Hopkinson, very wrong indeed. If we were able to travel back in time to 1817 and take a look inside the County Gaol on Friar Gate in Derby, we’d find amongst the prisoners five men - John Brown, Thomas Jackson, George Booth, John King and the subject of this article, Thomas Hopkinson. The five men in question had been accused of setting fire to hay and corn stacks in South Wingfield at the property of Winfield Halton.

It was one of the many offences punishable by death during the latter part of what was known as the Bloody Code - a series of laws in England, Wales and Ireland in the 18th and early 19th centuries which mandated the death penalty for a wide range of crimes.

Four of the men would be hanged for the crime on August 15, 1817 but Thomas was spared the hangman’s noose. Though the Derby Mercury detailed on July 24, 1817 that all five men would go to the Assizes and face this charge, the report on the sentencing seven days later omitted to mention Thomas.

The explanation was simple enough - showing an instinct for survival that belied his later mistakes, Thomas had turned King’s Evidence. To turn King’s Evidence the accused would admit their guilt and testify against their associates or accomplices, often in exchange for leniency in sentencing or

immunity from prosecution. It seemed in this case that Thomas was acquitted while his erstwhile associates were launched into eternity. Thomas, it is believed, was suspicious that John King was intending to turn King’s Evidence himself - at one point he had made a confession which he then retracted - and decided to get there first.

Notably at the execution, and despite the fact that they were soon to die, three of the four men

The masthead of the broadside produced for the execution of Thomas Hopkinson.

The site of Derby's County Gaol in 2023.

Photo by: Jamie Turner.

- when confronted by a heavy downpour on their way to the gallows - chose to shelter from it. The Derby Mercury described how “two of them deliberately retreated to the shelter of an umbrella which was expanded on the drop, and a third placed himself under cover of the door way. The inconvenience of being wet was felt and avoided by men who knew that they had not five minutes longer to live!!”

Thomas was eighteen years old at this time and contemporary literature – which must be said held a certain degree of bias against him – described him as someone who, once he had entered a life of crime, had abandoned ‘every moral feeling and every religious consideration’. He had been born in Ashover and lived with this father until the age of fourteen. At that point the family moved to Woolley Moor and here he had ‘formed an intercourse with abandoned companions and commenced that profligate career which brought him to his untimely end’.

have hoped that this was a wake-up call for Thomas, he continued his criminal career unabashed. Though his previous associates and companions had been hanged, Thomas made fresh acquaintances and amongst these was a young man called John Fletcher. It was in 1819 that the now twenty-year-old Thomas, alongside John Fletcher, committed highway robbery on the turnpike road near Dronfield. Their victim was a man by the name of William Bucknall and he was described as being put ‘in bodily fear’ whilst they stole a ‘purse containing twelve shillings and six-pence’.

sentence at the Assizes that day. Ultimately fifteen of those people, including John Fletcher, were reprieved. Only Hopkinson and Hannah Bocking – a sixteen-year-old girl found guilty of murder –went on to face the executioner with all hopes of a reprieve dashed.

It was the sight of Hannah Bocking seated in the condemned pew of the gaol chapel only an hour before her execution, that caused one of only two occasions on which Hopkinson’s bravado faltered. The other occasion had been when he had broken down and cried when his father visited him on the day of his execution.

On the morning of his execution on April 2, 1819, Hopkinson also took part in the usual religious observations whilst spending time with the chaplain. He expressed his ‘free forgiveness’ for all his enemies and said he hoped that ‘his example would prove a warning to those who should witness his execution’.

When asked what his warning to young people would be in order to prevent them from falling into a life of crime, his reply was simply ‘to avoid bad company’. His death on the gallows was neither quick nor painless, with the Derby Mercury reporting that he was ‘much convulsed after the drop fell’ and that ‘he seemed to suffer more than is usual on such occasions’.

Though we don’t know the name of the executioner that day, in all surety we do know of someone it might have been – the father of Thomas Jackson who had witnessed Hopkinson turning King’s Evidence on his son two years previously and the subsequent execution of him. The father had volunteered to be the one to execute him but the Derby Mercury’s coverage of this was somewhat ambiguous as to whether the offer had been accepted - whilst being quite definitive as to what they thought of the offer in either event. Referring to the man as a ‘wretch’, they wrote that ‘human nature recoils with horror from such a monster, and rejoices to hope that this may be a solitary instance of such depravity’.

He had formed a close association with Thomas Jackson who was described at the time as being ‘wicked company’. Hopkinson’s nights were spent ‘poaching, robbing hen roosts, gardens, and barns’ and his days 'were spent either in that kind of idleness which is ever the fruitful source of fresh crimes or in dissipating, in profligate excess, the money acquired by his nefarious practices’. Though this lifestyle came to an end for four of the five at the end of a rope, and though you might

In February of that year both Hopkinson and Fletcher were arrested for the crime. Though Hopkinson had confessed to an entire litany of crimes whilst incarcerated, he steadfastly proclaimed his innocence to the latest charge of highway robbery. Regardless of this, both he and Fletcher were both found guilty and sentenced to death. Though on occasions whilst held in the gaol, Hopkinson had a tendency to suddenly launch into humorously indecent songs, he was generally regarded to have shown quite a high level of bravado considering the circumstances that he was found in. The Derby Mercury described it rather cuttingly as ‘what might have been anticipated from one lost to all moral sensibility, and so accustomed to vice as scarcely to have preserved the distinctions between right and wrong’.

It is possible that he was quite hopeful of a reprieve. On the day that he had been sentenced to death, Hopkinson and Fletcher were just two of seventeen prisoners who had received the death

Ultimately, we will never know if the offer was accepted – although as John Crossland once hung his own father and brother in Derby to avoid the hangman himself, we can see that impromptu hangmen were well within the scope of possibilities – but either way the life of Thomas was brought to an end.

The Derby Mercury makes its feelings clear on the offer from Thomas Jackson's father to execute Hopkinson.

A list of crimes Thomas had confessed to - he denied the one he had received the death penalty for.

What remains of the gaol is now an excellent museum.

The list of prisoners who received the death sentence on the same day as Thomas. Ultimately only Thomas and Hannah Bocking would be executed.

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An impatient and characterheadstrong

When the vicar of the now Derby Cathedral organised its demolition!

Back in Issue 3 in a wonderful piece written by Mark Miley of Derbyinpictures.com, we looked back at the history of Derby Cathedral – previously known as All Saints Church. In that piece we heard a mention of the church being demolished based on the unilateral decision of its vicar - Dr Michael Hutchinson – in order to force the Derby Corporation’s hands on a new church. In this issue we look a little more into Dr Michael Hutchinson and his controversial decision.

took them very seriously.

Dr Michael Hutchinson took them seriously though – very seriously indeed!

Though he had no support whatsoever from the Derby Corporation for his plans, he pressed on regardless and over time collected materials that would be required in the rebuild, appointed James Gibb as the architect and appointed Smiths of Warwick as the building contractors. Sill the Corporation would not budge.

When on February 13, 1723 he made arrangements for upcoming services to be held at nearby St. Michaels, it was quite clear that he was planning something drastic.

totally forced, the Corporation gifted 200 guineas and Hutchinson himself gifted £40. Hutchinson didn’t restrict his fundraising to Derby, travelling all over England in his efforts and earning the title of ‘a master in the art of begging’ from the historian William Hutton. Included on the subscription list were the names of Sir Robert Walpole, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer and today often viewed as the first British Prime Minister, and Sir Isaac Newton.

For over two years – and while the church was rebuilt – services were held at St. Michaels until November 21, 1725 the first sermon in the newly rebuilt church was preached. It was, of course. a sermon by Dr Michael Hutchinson.

Hutchinson had previously been the Rector of Cheadle and later the Canon of Lichfield before coming to All Saints in Derby in 1719. Prior to his arrival, the fabric of the church had begun to deteriorate and by 1700 the church was in a ruinous state. So ruinous in fact that according to Margaret Mallender, who wrote an account of the events at that time, ‘people were simply afraid to attend services’. Various attempts had been made before to raise money for a rebuilding programme, including a countrywide appeal in 1714, but they had all been unsuccessful.

In fact, talks of rebuilding the church had been discussed for so long that to a large degree nobody

At daybreak on February 18, 1723, workmen were secretly let into the church and were instructed to break it down. Before the citizens of the town were fully aware of what was happening, the roof was off and the walls destroyed. Only the tower –built between 1510 and 1530 – survived.

A new church now had to be built and Hutchinson was tasked with making it so. Funds were urgently required – the contractors estimated cost for the rebuilding was £3,250 (over £500,000 in today’s money) - and a subscription list

Sir Isaac Newton contributed financially to the appeal for the rebuilding of Derby Cathedral.

Derby Cathedral.

James Gibb was the architect for the rebuilding of Derby Cathedral.

Death occasioned by violence

“Murder At The Derby Green Hill Lunatic Asylum”

Regular readers of our newspaper will have spotted in our last issue a mention of the Green Hill Lunatic Asylum in our article about the Derby Hippodrome. Its connection in that article was the fact that the Hippodrome was built where the asylum once stood, but in this article – and after a few requests to do so - we look a little into the history of the asylum itself and also a gruesome murder that took place there.

describing the apartments at the house as ‘numerous, spacious, and lofty, affording ample space for the classification of patients’, we should, perhaps, temper this with our knowledge of how patients were attended to in those times under the guise of treatment. Whatever the particulars of the treatment though, it was a murder that occurred there in 1848 that hastened the demise of the establishment.

On December 6, 1848 the Derby Mercury reported on the inquest of Samuel Tomlinson – a patient ‘confined’ at Green Hill House. Describing the victim’s body at the inquest it was reported that 'the head presented a wretched appearance, particularly on the right side, the lower jaw being fractured, and several of the teeth knocked out’.

around 7pm with Harold Strelly in their room and returned to the room at around 6.15am the following morning. He told the inquest that this was earlier than his usual time to visit the room in the morning which would have been around 7.45am. The reason given for the early visit was that one of the patients had recently been to see him for a candle and he’d heard Samuel singing – something he was apparently prone to doing when he heard people around. On this occasion however when he heard the singing, he’d also heard an unusual noise in addition to it.

On his arrival in the room, Strelly was standing naked by the side of his own bed, with Tomlinson lying on the floor bleeding profusely and moaning. Pushing Strelly onto his bed and covering him up, he went downstairs to fetch a light and, taking with him another patient, he returned to the room where it seemed that Tomlinson was now dead. Strelly was still in his bed, unmoved from the position he’d been placed in.

George then called for Dr. Brigstock – at that time the proprietor of the asylum – and on his arrival the room was searched, and a bed lath was found with a considerable quantity of Tomlinson’s blood on it. Strelly was immediately taken into the sitting room and ‘secured'.

After testimony from Dr. Brigstock and Charles Borough – the visiting surgeon to the asylum – the coroner ruled that to him it was quite clear that the assailant was Strelly and the weapon was the bed lath and returned a verdict of wilful murder, with his trial to take place at the next assizes.

It opened on February 1, 1832 under the superintendence of a Mr. Morris and a Mr. Fisher but for reasons unknown the partnership was short-lived and by December 5, 1832 it was reported that Mr. Morris and his wife had withdrawn from the partnership.

Though contemporary reports paint the establishment in a good light with the Derby Mercury in 1836

Tomlinson had been found in the room he slept in the night previously. The room had three bedsteads with one of them currently unused and the third slept in by another patient, Harold Strelly.

George Bailey – one of the keepers at the asylum - told the inquest that he’d left the deceased at

Strelly’s trial was held the following March and during the trial he alleged abusive behaviour at the asylum, accusing Bailey of hitting him on numerous occasions. During the summing up the jury was told that there didn’t appear to be any evidence that Strelly had 'wilfully committed the crime' and there had been sufficient evidence to prove his insanity at the time of the crime. If the jury agreed with this, Strelly would be sent to a place where ‘he would not likely be locked up with another lunatic from 8 o’clock at night until 6 next morning, and with a tremendous bludgeon at hand.”

The jury found him not guilty, on the grounds of insanity.

An article in the Derby Mercury reported that the privately run Green Hill House was Derby’s first ‘lunatic asylum’ as the headline described the establishment.

An announcement regarding the opening of Green Hill House in the Derby Mercury.

Green Hill House as painted by S. H. Parkins.

An excerpt from a report into the murder of Samuel Tomlinson from the Derby Mercury on 6 December 1848.

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ERNEST TOWNSEND THE DERBY ARTIST

1890-1944

PART 2

In Issue 4 of our newspaper, we looked at the first part of a serialised piece dedicated to one of Derby’s greatest artists –Ernest Townsendby his grandson Jim. For those of you who might not have read that article, you can see it online here: issuu.com/derbyuncovered/docs/derby_uncovered_issue_4/54 - In part two, we look at Ernest the Olympian, his relationship with Winston S. Churchill and hear the recollections and memories of David Townsend – one of Ernest’s sons.

ERNEST THE OLYMPIAN

Earlier in 1912, Townsend had represented Great Britain at the Stockholm Olympic Games. Whilst now, the Olympics are synonymous with sport, the concept of Olympism was a philosophy that sought to internationally blend sport and

culture. Ernest submitted an entry in the Fine Art - Painting competition event, it is not clear if he visited Stockholm and if the event was held at this location or if the work was painted in Derby and sent to Stockholm. There is no record of the painting’s subject. The discovery of his participation was something of a surprise to the family who had known nothing of his Olympic history many years prior. It would be wonderful to find this work of art and further piece together the event. If you’re lucky enough to have one of his paintings, I suggest you take a look at the subject and the reverse side of the picture for any clues!

CATHEDRAL STUDIOS, 31 FULL STREET, DERBY

They moved into their home on Otter Street and Ernest rented a studio behind Haslam’s shop at No.22 Iron Gate. In 1915, they moved into 31 Full Street, a charming Jacobean house that became known as ‘Cathedral Studios’. Ernest painted on the second to top floor, the floor above had a large section removed to allow light to enter his studio from a large window in the roof. Ernest and Doris’ day would be punctuated by visitors to the

A self-portrait of Ernest Townsend, 1929.

studio, sitters having their portrait painted, lunch and evening socialising with friends and Derby’s influential classes.

ERNEST AND WINSTON S CHURCHILL

Ernest was commissioned by an anonymous donor in 1915 to paint Winston S Churchill, then a Liberal MP, Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the Privy Council. To execute the work, Ernest rented a studio in Cheyney Walk, Chelsea and Churchill sat for him on several occasions. Ernest was a deeply patriotic man, with a keen interest in politics. During the sittings, Ernest wanted to discuss politics with Churchill, but Churchill was far more interested in discussing and learning about painting techniques from Ernest, having recently taken up painting as a pastime. The painting of Churchill briefly hung in the dining room at the National Liberal Club on Victoria Street, London. Soon thereafter Churchill again switched political allegiance back to the Conservative Party and in turn, the painting was placed in storage. During the London Blitz of 1941 it was damaged whilst in store. Ernest was commissioned to restore the picture and, following an unveiling ceremony by Churchill, it was hung in the Smoking Room of the National Liberal Club. Ernest’s health was failing him by this time and he was unable to attend.

Bruce Townsend, Ernest’s son recalls the family listening to the ceremony and the premier’s speech on the 'wireless', relaying extracts to Ernest whilst he lay in bed in the next room, including how Churchill complimented the artist’s work.

The Stockholm 1912 Olympic Games at which Ernest represented Great Britain in the art competition.

Full Street from the studio window.

ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWSSATURDAY 31 JULY 1943

Later, during 1940 Ernest painted a picture depicting battle-weary British soldiers heading to Dunkirk in northern France. This picture can only have been painted to record the moment; its commercial interest was limited. After the war, this picture was offered to Churchill by his son David. Churchill, who was inundated with post-war offers of donation, on this occasion, graciously accepted the picture, presumably due to his past connections with the artist and the subject matter. This now hangs in Churchill’s home, Chartwell, which is now a National Trust Property.

LIFE AT CATHEDRAL STUDIOS IN THE 1920S

Ernest was ‘on the up’ in 1915, with the Churchill commission, other notable dignitaries painted, a new home, a young family and an increasingly public profile. But despite all this, a strong sense of duty to the country prevailed and at the age of 35 he became a special constable during the First World War and later joined the Army Coast Guard. The extract below was written some 30 years ago by one of Ernest and Doris’ sons, David. The passage gives a great sense of life in Derby and the comings and goings of an artist’s studio and home in the early part of the Twentieth Century.

LIVING AT NO. 31 FULL STREET – MEMORIES OF DAVID TOWNSEND

‘One of my earliest recollections is of sitting in a pram in the garden of All Saints Church House opposite 31 Full Street, where we lived. There was no garden at number 31, just a small yard hemmed in by tall buildings, and my mother had accepted the offer of the old lady across the street, Mrs Robinson, to park me in the long-grassed plot that sloped down to the river. My father had been away on a portrait painting commission and on his return had given me a small wooden bird, rather like a chaffinch, which I recall throwing into a bed of nasturtiums. It was never seen again!

Father was seldom away and spent most of his time in the studio on the second floor. I was not allowed in this hallowed area until several years later when various interesting objects captivated

me. There were canvasses and half-finished works stacked around the walls. Large, fat jars filled with brushes stood on a round table amidst a sea of bright tubes of paint and coloured pastels. Beneath the north light in the attic roof above was a throne, its platform some eighteen inches above floor level, and a wooden easel which had a ratchet mechanism for adjusting the height of canvasses. Turning a brass handle produced a ‘click clicking’ sound which mesmerised me, and goaded father into urging me to ‘Give it a rest’. My one outstanding memory of the studio is the sweet, heady smell of turpentine and linseed oil. There was always much activity on the social side with coffee mornings and afternoon tea for mother’s lady companions and evening bridge parties when father would join the guests in the long gas-lit drawing room. On Christmas eve he would take me down Full Street to the Market Place where canvas covered stores, lit by paraffin flares, were piled high with food and merchandise. We had to find a tree tall enough to touch the ceiling when set in a large copper pan on the grand piano. At New Year there were fancy dress gatherings with my parents’ closest friends, the drawing room would come alive with the animated clatter of Holy Crusaders, wimpoled ladies and Grecian Gods. Sometimes my mother would play Chopin for the assembled company, the notes reaching me softly across the gloomy bedroom.

Although by nature a loner and a rather private person, father made a conscious effort to be sociable and to take an interest in the town’s affairs. He was well versed in local history and supported campaigns for the preservation of old buildings in the town centre. I well remember his fruitless, strenuous efforts to save the Mayors Parlour in Tenant Street.

He was not the easiest of people to live with, sometimes pre-occupied and withdrawn. On completion of a portrait, or other major work, he seemed dejected and mentally spent.

A diversity of characters passed through the navy blue door of No 31; a poacher, from Derby's West End, a down and out from the Salvation Army Hostel, Dr Pearce, first Bishop of Derby, J. R. Thomas, Derby's MP for 25 years, J. B. Peart of bakery fame and a firm friend of Ernest’s and a succession of Mayors of Derby including the first Lady Mayor, Alderman Mrs Petty. A policeman's lot was certainly a happy one for P.C. 62 who used

to direct traffic in the Wardwick, when he had his portrait painted at the Townsend studios. Scores of other Derbeians from various walks of life are remembered by their portraits from the brush of this gifted artist; the jolly ones, the schemers, the prigs and the pompous. Others employed by the artist as models are later, perpetuated in such notable works as 'The Artic Tern' and 'The Gold Dressing Gown'.

PC62, who stood traffic duties at the Wardwick in Derby for many years.

David Townsend described a world that has some similarities to that which we recognise today, but a lifestyle that has now largely long passed.

In the next part of this wonderful series, we look at the Townsend’s relocation to Allestree and Coxbench, Ernest’s invaluable contributions and immense efforts during World War Two and just what life was like for an artist in Derby at that time. It would be great to hear any stories you have regarding Ernest Townsend and his family, or if you have one of his paintings. Contact us at info@derbyuncovered.com

Dunkirk 1940, recently restored and now hanging at Chartwell, the former home of Winston Churchill

Derby Fish Market 1922

Gossip, painted in 1917, featuring Doris and a Mr. Purslove who was a homeless model that Ernest would call on from time-to-time. Published in Punch Magazine at the time with the strapline of ‘And they call this beer?’

PC62, who stood traffic duties at the Wardwick in Derby for many years.

WAR ON THE DOORSTEP WHEN DEATH AND DESTRUCTION ARRIVED IN DERBY

In 1982 I was nine years old and attended Firs Estate Junior School. The school itself was no more than five minutes away from my house, so every day I came home for my lunch before returning back to school for my afternoon lessons.

It was one particular lunchtime as I walked through the back door and into the kitchen that I got hurriedly shushed by my mother. She was listening intently to the radio until she eventually explained that we were now at war with Argentina in what became known as the Falklands War. I followed the news of the war as best I could at that age, and I was struck by how far away everything was happening and wondered what it must be like for those who actually lived there.

It all felt very far away again a few years later when I was 17 and the Gulf War was beamed live to our TVs, but again I wondered what it would feel like if a seemingly far away war suddenly got closer to home. The other day I came across an article regarding the Zeppelin air raid on Derby in World War One and a thought formed in my head.

What must it have been like to realise that a far away war might now suddenly be on your doorstep?

World War One had commenced – from a British perspective - on August 4, 1914 but it wasn’t until 1916 that Derby, for the very first time, saw the death and destruction of the war arrive squarely on its doorstep.

German Zeppelins had begun their attacks on England in 1915 and over the course of that year and the following year there had been 52 raids which had killed 556 people and injured 1,357. However, it was just after midnight on February 1, 1916 that the terror of the Zeppelin bombs hit Derby.

The Zeppelin in question was lost and under the command of Captain Alois Boeker. It was part of multiple airships that had intended to attack Liverpool and Birmingham. Zeppelins however were slow and lumbering and not one of them had got nearer to Liverpool than Stoke before beginning to turn back. It was whilst one of the airships was over Derby just after midnight that it dispatched its remaining 21 high explosive bombs and four incendiaries at nine various locations on the south side of the town.

The town had received warning about a possible impending air raid just after 7pm the previous evening. Measures such as dousing street lighting, halting tramcars and closing businesses had been quickly enacted and when three airships passed close by shortly after it was thought that the precautions had been successful. Confidence in their success lead to the measures being relaxed just before midnight with the resulting light convincing Captain Boeker that he had reached Liverpool. He therefore released his bombs.

Four men died when nine high explosive bombs were dropped near to the No 9 Shed of the Loco Works - 32-year-old fitter William Bancroft of Strutt Street, 23-year-old Henry Hithersay of Devonshire Street and 54-year-old engine driver

James Gibbs Hardy, also of Strutt Street, died that night with 48-year-old fitter Charles Henry Champion of Fleet Street dying three days later from his injuries. A Mrs Constantine – a former schoolmistresswho lived nearby, also died that night of a heart attack during the raid.

Five bombs were also dropped on the Carriage and Wagon Works, three bombs - two high-explosive and one incendiary - fell near to the gasworks on what is now Pride Park, while other bombs landed on the corner of Bateman Street, the Metalite Lamp Works on Graham Road, Fletcher’s Lace Mill on Osmaston Road and on Horton Street. With their full quota of bombs dispatched, Captain Boeker and his crew returned home for a debriefing at which they reported – mistakenly - that they had bombed Liverpool.

On February 3, the Derby Daily Telegraph reported that across England 33 men, 20 women and six children had been killed in the raids.

Derby would again be bombed in World War Two, but this was perhaps the first time in centuries that war had truly presented itself on our doorsteps.

A Zeppelin bomber.

The Metalite Lamp Works on Graham Road.

A First World War recruitment poster showing a Zeppelin over Saint Paul's Cathedral.

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In 1864 Mitchell's Directory wrote of the Derby Mercury that 'Great attention is paid to all local proceedings, of which some space is weekly devoted to the reviews of new books and music. It is the oldest established paper in the county, and is principally supported by the nobility,

clergy, gentry, agriculturists, and tradesmen in the neighbourhood'.

Here's we bring you some various clippings from the 1800’s enabling you – the reader – to see how things were reported and written in a different era.

were both advertising their end of year sales in the 30 December 1899 edition of the Derby Mercury. When this advert was placed, Barlow & Taylor were not based in the location that most people would remember them in – the building in the Market Place that now houses Nando’s – they were based in the building in the Market Place which now plays host to The Hideout.

I’m sure some of you will remember Barlow & Taylor and Thurman & Malin - they were both still in existence many years after they

It’s in the 6 December 1899 edition of the Derby Mercury that we find W. W. Winter advertising portraits as Christmas Cards. Winter’s are not only still going strong today, but are still in the same studios on Midland Road.

Meteorological results were often published in the Derby Mercury

and these results – published on 6 November 1817 – offer a detailed look for the month of October of that year. The hottest day that November had been 54°F – 12.22°C. The coldest night had been a very brisk 0°C.

Back in the 1800’s if you wanted to keep abreast of the news, one of the best ways of doing so was the Derby Mercury newspaper.

It wasn’t uncommon for the Derby Mercury to report on incarcerationtheand executions of criminals in Derby, and on occasions some of the reports were very long indeed. This is just an excerpt from a report into the crime, trial, andincarceration, execution of William Pugh in the 12August 1896 edition. William was executed for the murder of Elizabeth Boot. Agreat deal of official information was published in the Derby Mercury.

On 16 September 1813 the full list of people who had obtained Gamekeeper’s Certificates was published. The certificates cost Three Pounds, Thirteen Shillings, and Sixpence – around £185 in today’s Extrememoney.weather events – such as this one – were often reported in the Derby Mercury. This report is from 7 July 1852, and it describes a violent thunderstorm in a thoroughly evocative manner. It wasn’t just the major crimes that got reported in the Derby Mercury. This clipping from 16 March 1881 lists a dozen people that received fines for keeping dogs without licenses at one sitting of the Derby Borough Police Court. Youthful age was no defence in the crimes reported on 17 January 1849. Though fourteen-year-old George Goss was found not guilty the other people reported on were not so lucky with all the others receiving sentences including hard labour - with two of them sentencedadditionally to be privately whipped. The 3 July 1867 edition brought us some poetry with a poem entitled The Secret. There was no author listed for the poem but maybe one of the readers might know? Upcoming auctions – such as this one reported in the 14 February 1805 edition of the Derby Mercury – were often listed. This auction was to be for theofandlivestockproperty a Mr. SmedleyJohn of Newton Solney.

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Alice Wheeldon

Born: January 27, 1866. Died: February 21, 1919.

Alice Ann Marshall was born in Derby in 1866 and was the daughter of William Marshall, a railway engineer. Though after her marriage in 1886 to William Augustus Wheeldon she had moved to Bootle near Liverpool, she moved back to Derby in 1894 – this time with her four children, Nellie (born 1889), Hettie (born 1891), William (born 1892) and Winnie (born 1893).

In 1901 – with her husband now a commercial traveller - Alice and her family moved to 91 Stanhope Street, Derby and in the same year –with the help of an inheritance from her father –Alice took over the running of an established business as a ‘wardrobe dealer’ at 12 Pear Tree Road. Alice was a socialist and a member of the Socialist Labour Party and was also active in the Women's Social and Political Union – the Suffragettes. Firmly anti-war and a pacifist, her daughters, Hettie Wheeldon and Winnie Wheeldon, shared her feminist political views.

After the outbreak of the First World War, Alice and her daughters joined the No-Conscription Fellowship - a British pacifist organisation which was founded in London by Fenner Brockway and Clifford Allen on November 27, 1914 – and when the Military Service Act introduced conscription in January 1916, Alice played her part in establishing a network in Derby to help conscientious objectors on the run or in jail.

It was under the guise of being a conscientious objector seeking accommodation, that Alex Gordon approached the household in December

The police mugshot taken of Alice in 1917.

The Derby Civic Society erected a Blue Plaque as a memorial at 12 Pear Tree Road, Normanton, Derby.

For Issue Five’s Famous Footprints, we look at a woman who was born – and died – in Derby and was someone who was unafraid to take a stand for what she believed in – no matter the potential consequences. One of those consequences would involve imprisonment on a charge that many today – Including this author - believe to be a miscarriage of justice.

Footprints

1916 – but things weren’t as they seemed. Gordon had been sent to the household by Herbert Booth, an employee of a branch of the Ministry of Munitions known as PMS2. Gordon first visited on December 27, 1916 and after sharing a meal with the Wheeldons, they ensured that lodgings were found for him. He returned the following day and it was on that same day that he contacted Herbert Booth requesting that he come to Derby. It would later emerge that he wanted to alert his superiors to a so-called plot, and masquerading as another conscientious objector called Comrade Bert, Booth was introduced to the family.

A short while after this, on January 1, 1917, a parcel was intercepted en route to Alice. The parcel had been sent from Southampton by her daughter

Winnie and had been supplied by Winnie’s husband – Alfred Mason – who was a pharmacist. The parcel contained poison and according to Gordon this poison was to be used in an assassination.

It was this parcel of poison – and the ‘plot’ that Gordon claimed existed - that was to form the basis of a crown prosecution.

Alice, her daughters Hettie and Winnie and Alfred Mason were all arrested on January 30, 1917. On February 3, 1917 they were charged with conspiracy to murder the Liberal Prime Minister David Lloyd George and Labour Party cabinet minister Arthur Henderson with the poison they had purchased.

The case for the defence was that Alice had believed that Gordon was a conscientious objector, and that she had come to a deal with him that involved her providing poison for him to kill dogs at an internment camp in order to facilitate an escape for other conscientious objectors. In return, Gordon would help her son and two others who were currently on the run as objectors themselves.

Though initially tried at the Derby Guildhall, the trial was moved to the Old Bailey in London in a blaze of publicity where Attorney General, F. E. Smith prosecuted the case in person.

In his opening statement Smith argued that the ‘Wheeldon women were in the habit of employing, habitually, language which would be disgusting and obscene in the mouth of the lowest class of criminal’ and went on to state that the main body

of evidence he would present would be from the two undercover agents – Gordon and Booth.

It transpired, however, that Gordon would not be testifying. In fact, Gordon wasn’t even Gordon – he was actually William Rickard – a convicted criminal who had twice been declared insane.

With ‘Gordon’ kept out of the limelight of the trial, the defendants were found guilty on the basis of shaky and unreliable evidence and In March 1917 Alice was sentenced to 10 years, Alfred seven years and Winnie five years. Hettie was acquitted.

The permission to appeal was refused on April 2, 1917.

Alice was released by Lloyd George in December of the same year when, after starting a hunger strike, the authorities decided that it would be politically unwise to run the risk of her dying in prison.

Still in poor health from her spell in prison, Alice died of influenza in February 1919.

A great many academics and historians believe Alice’s conviction to be unsound - the professional historian Dr Nicholas Hiley described the conviction as ‘shaky’ and described Rickard as ‘spectacularly unreliable' and an ‘unbalanced fantasist’ – and although on June 15, 2022 an application for review to clear the name of the three people convicted of conspiring to kill the prime minister failed, it only did so because the Criminal Cases Review Commission deemed it to be too old to justify the expense of referral to the Court of Appeal.

Stating that the application otherwise had merit they said that: "The submissions identified in the application may raise a real possibility that these convictions would be overturned."

Chloë Mason - great granddaughter of Alice –accepted the reasoning behind it saying that she acknowledged “the severe austerity currently imposed on the criminal justice system in the UK, and it is appropriate in this context that priority be given to people who are alive – some of them actually serving prison sentences. However, I am very glad and grateful for the Commission’s positive view: that there could have been a real possibility that the Court of Appeal would hold the convictions unsafe.”

Right – left: Alice Wheeldon, Winnie Mason, Hettie Wheeldon and a guard, taken when on remand in 1917.

Proceedings against Alice, Hettie, Winnie and Alfred began at the Guildhall in Derby before moving to the Old Bailey in London.

Photo by: Jamie Turner.

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Digging Deeper into Derby and Derbyshire

Rykneld Bowling Club

A beautifully peaceful and serene oasis of tranquility

If we travel back to 1918 in England, we find a country very much still at war during what became known to us as World War One. It wouldn’t be until November of that year that Germany would sign the Armistice at Compiègne, ending the war, but back at home people were trying to live their lives as best they could in the shadow of the war, and leisure and entertainment activities played a large part in that.

It was in that very same field of leisure activities over at the Arboretum Bowling Club that a row that had been brewing was about to boil over. Various members of the club had become

disaffected by the way it was run and matters came to a head when they left the club to form their own. The new club was Rykneld Bowling Club and though it took more than a year before

games commenced at Farley Drive, which is now Farley Road, the club was formed on February 26 1918.

It is believed that the dispute had centred around a desire to adopt some new rules concerning the use of their green and twelve of the members –all important businesspeople in Derby at the time – felt strongly enough about it to leave the club and form their own. A bank loan was secured and a piece of land was purchased from the Rykneld Estate for £653 – around £30,000 in today’s money – and the green was built. With a railway carriage purchased to provide shelter at the side of the green –

Rykneld Bowling Club.

the purpose-built club house which remains today, did not arrive until the mid-1930s – the club opened its doors on May 10, 1919 and, with 100 members already signed up, they played their first game.

Over the years the club has seen some notable names from Derby’s history play there. In bygone days it was customary for the town's mayor to send down the first wood of a new season and other dignitaries such as Colonel Horatio Rawlings – the Chief Constable of Derby from 1926 to 1956were also regular visitors.

Jimmy Hagan – a divine footballing talent who was inexplicably sold by Derby County to Sheffield United in 1938 - played at the club whenever he came to visit his old friend, veteran athlete Lew

Patrick, who was a keen Rykneld member. Hagan was subject to a bid that would have been a British record transfer fee of £32,500 from Sheffield Wednesday in February 1951 before declining the move, and went on to lead Benfica to three successive league titles in Portugal as a manger with one of those successes boasting an undefeated league campaign. He enjoyed a lifelong friendship with the legendary Eusébio that began at Benfica.

Though over the years Derby has sadly lost some famous bowling venues including the greens at the rear of pubs such as the Coach and Horses on Mansfield Road and the former Mafeking Hotel in Porter Road, Rykneld Bowling Club has over the years

always prided itself on its self-sufficiency. In 2008 the club - with grant support from organisations such as BIFA, The Tom Carey Fund, East Midlands Airport, Midlands Co-Op and Sport England - raised £10,000 to refurbish and improve the club house including the installation of disabled access and facilities enabling it to be used by other organisations in the area, as well as organising a new roof and a new kitchen. Alongside the floodlights which arrived in the 1980s the club boasts a wonderful venue. Though bordered by two very busy thoroughfares in Manor Road and Burton Road you’d have no idea or sense of this once you step inside the club. It’s a beautifully peaceful and serene oasis of tranquility in an everbusy world and the love and care put into its maintenance and upkeep is easy to see. Now 105 years old and counting, the club has a wonderful past to look back upon and a bright future to look forward to.

Rykneld Bowling Club can be found at:

39 Farley Road, Derby DE23 6BW

www.rykneldbowlingclub.co.uk

A picture taken in 2018 to mark the centenary of the club.

The Club House.

The original Incorporation Certificate of the club.

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