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The

Lost Houses of Derbyshire

by Maxwell Craven

Breadsall Mount

Breadsall Mount, east front, lying empty, 1967, shortly before demolition.

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was one of the villages immediately surrounding Derby that so far has escaped being absorbed by the ever-expanding city below it and to the south, although a considerable amount of land on the southern edge of the parish was absorbed in 1921 and is now host to the Breadsall Hill Top estate, created through the sale and destruction of two of several country houses and gentleman’s villas in the parish, Breadsall Hill Top and Breadsall Mount.

Bateman coat-of-arms on the east front, after having been moved by Bishop Pearce. Photograph taken by the late Roy Hughes in 1967. [M Craven]

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Indeed, Breadsall’s history was always chequered, the parish having been divided by its first feudal lords, the de Dunes, into two separate manorial estates. There were also two settlements: the present village, originally Breadsall Nether Hall, and another on the ridge to the SE called Breadsall Upper Hall.

I became acquainted with the latter when, as Assistant Keeper of Archaeology at the Museum, I was invited in 1980 to the site by the late Maurice Brassington to see what was there, the City Council having then just decided to sell the entire area for housing.

What we found was a moated site, presumably the site of the de Dune family’s Upper Hall, and numerous sunken lanes and grassy house platforms: the place was a hitherto unrecorded deserted Medieval village (DMV). Had we discovered all this before, English Heritage (as it then was) could have been alerted and, even had they failed to stop Derby expanding onto the site, could at least have insisted on an archaeological investigation, although, in truth, the requirement for a developer to fund an excavation in the circumstances was then still a decade and a half off.

Down the hill, Breadsall Nether Hall is now Breadsall Old Hall, a much-rebuilt Medieval remnant in the middle of the village, once the property of the Harpurs and previously of the Curzons. To the north, once stood Breadsall Priory, which was replaced by the Cutler family’s new house around 1600. This Jacobean mansion, much rebuilt for Sir Alfred Haslam

by Scrivener of Stoke and extended in the Edwardian period by Percy Currey, eventually became an hotel.

On the Hill Top, things were different. Just SE of the DMV once stood Breadsall Mount, on land owned by the Bateman family of Derby and Hartington Hall as part of the large estate centered on Morley which they had inherited from the Sacheverels. They had numerous interests in Derby, and in 1731 built 36, St. Mary’s Gate as their town house – until they inherited the much grander St. Mary’s Gate House a generation later.

One, Sir Hugh Bateman MP, was raised to a baronetcy in 1806, but failed to leave any sons, the title going via a daughter (a most unusual arrangement for a baronet) to the Scotts of Great Barr and eventually to the Hoods.

Yet by the Regency period the centre of Derby was getting polluted and noisy. The elite were minded to move into the suburbs, and in this series we have looked at several of the opulent villas built by the Bateman’s contemporaries.

Their own first suburban house was Litchurch Villa, of c. 1828, now the Rolls-Rovce club on Osmaston Road. Yet a generation down the line again it turned out to be too close the foundries of Litchurch, the smoke, smells and racket of which made the place difficult to live in.

Therefore, Sir Hugh’s nephew, Thomas Osborne Bateman (fifth son of the Baronet’s brother Richard) decided in 1863 to move yet again, this time choosing the high ground to the north of the town, clear of what the prevailing wind might bring from the foundries. Here he decided to build a new house entirely, and spare no expense whilst doing so. The site was on land once part of Breadsall Upper Hall but it was on the family’s ancient Morley estate, which supported the house, for Morley Hall was demolished by the 1750s and a successor house rented out.

Breadsall Mount, photographed from the SE by Richard Keene when new in the 1860s with the Bateman family on the lawn. [George Cash]

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Called Breadsall Mount, the house was begun in 1863, the architect being Henry Isaac Stevens of Friar Gate (1806-1873), then in partnership with Lancashire gentlemanarchitect Frederick Josias Robinson. Stevens was Derbyshire’s best known, most prolific and accomplished Victorian architect, if not perhaps the most imaginative. Second son of Isaac Nehemiah Stevens of Pimlico (later of Ockbrook), Steward to the Earl of Chesterfield, his mother was Londoner Elizabeth Young. Henry (as he was originally baptised on 15 November 1806 at St. George’s, Hanover Square) was trained under William Martin, Lord Chesterfield’s agent and architect at Bretby and the family seem to have had close connections with Lord Chesterfield’s household in London as well as in Derbyshire.

He also studied in the office of Sir Jeffrey Wyatville whilst the latter was working at Windsor Castle. Sir Jeffrey had designed Bretby Castle with Martin, and Stevens married Martin’s daughter Anne in 1832, settling and beginning work at Hartshorne, also on the Chesterfield estate. They had four children of whom only the youngest outlived

her parents. Through his wife, he was also uncle to another prolific Derby architect, George Henry Sheffield, whom he trained.

Stevens was Churchwarden of All Saints’ 1842-3, but by 1852 (when he was elected FRIBA) the family was living at Mackworth.

At just about the time he was completing Breadsall Mount (and perhaps thanks to the fee!) he built himself The Hollies, 20 Pear Tree Road, Pear Tree, a new Derby suburb. He served as a Conservative Councillor 186264 and 1866-69, and his will is dated 18th November 1872. He died at home 30th April 1873.

The house Stevens built was fairly standard fare for him. It was ‘Jacobethan’ that is, a combination of classic Elizabethan and Jacobean features, then very popular with the elite. The entrance was on the three gabled

west front, and was through a Gothic doorcase above which was carved, by Derby sculptor Joseph Barlow Robinson, the Bateman arms, quartering Sacheverell and Osborne. The gables were straight and coped, the house of two lofty storeys and attics and built of fine ashlar, squared from millstone grit quarried from Coxbench quarry nearby.

The south front had canted end bays with a stepped gable between and the east front had two gables flanking a dormer, with a four-bay service wing ending in yet another gable and an arched loggia. The windows were mainly four light mullioned and transomed ones, and there were paired string courses above them.

The whole was rounded off with impressive chimneys, reflecting the carved Gothic chimneypieces in the main rooms below.

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The

Lost Houses of Derbyshire

by Maxwell Craven

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Top left: Bishop Edward Courtenay Pearce, photographed when still Master of Corpus Christi, Cambridge [M. Craven] Top right: Arms of the diocese of Derby impaling those of Bishop Pearce as affixed over the entrance in 1927. Photograph taken by the late Roy Hughes in 1967.

[M Craven] Left: The site of the Breadsall Upper Hall DMV at Oakwood in 1979 looking East.

[M. Craven]

balustrade, and the rooms were plentifully panelled in oak.

first Bishop the Rt. Revd. Edward Courtenay Pearce.

The small park, set on ground falling to the south is now St. Andrew’s view, although that short-lived ‘railway church’ was not then built.

And that part of the estate to the east not in Morley parish was where Hill Top stood and is now covered in municipal housing.

Not to be out-done by Thomas Bateman, Bishop Pearce had his own coat of arms, correctly impaled with those of the diocese, carved above the entrance, moving their predecessor to the garden front. These arms had been granted to his elder brother Ernest, in 1919 when he had been made Bishop of Worcester with remainder to the male descendants of their father. The joky motto was ‘Je Perce’ literally ‘I drill’ (or discipline!)

The house passed on Bateman’s death to his son, Frederick Osborne Bateman, although by 1895 Mrs. Radcliffe was living there, followed by the time the first world war broke out by mining engineer and local magistrate, Joseph Hill. He moved out in 1927, when Frederick Bateman’s son Osborne Sacheverel Bateman sold the house and about four acres to the newly formed Diocese of Derby to enable it to be converted as the palace of the diocese’s

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He and his immediate successors lived at Breadsall Mount, within sight and sound of their Cathedral, until Bishop Allen decided it was ‘too pretentious’ and removed to a Regency house in Turnditch (since sold by Bishop Bowles for similar, equally misconceived

reasons) in favour of a smaller house still, a twentieth century affair on Duffield Broadway.

The reduction in size of Bishop’s residences, and those of the clergy is always a mistake, as these large old houses, although expensive of upkeep, were much loved by their diocesan flocks and parishioners and were equipped with plenty of space for parish or diocesan events. They are universally missed.

Thus in 1968, the house was left awaiting a new owner, rapidly succumbing to vandalism.

After a year or so it was acquired by Derby Corporation, who wanted the site and its four acres to extend the Hill Top estate northwards, the borough boundary having conveniently been extended the same year the Bishop moved. Consequently, it was demolished in June 1970 and the site used to build a school of outstanding architectural banality.

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Bold 20th century art adds spring colour to our saleroom – so what type of paintings do you love?

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The highlight of the consignment is Lot 218, a bright and cheerful oil painting by celebrated British artist Frederick John Pym Gore CBA, RA (1913-2009). The 50cm by 75cm work in oils is titled ‘The Pink Field Les Baux’ and has the prestigious Redfern Gallery label to the back. Another title states ‘The Path to Mausanne’.

Spencer Gore, was the president of the Camden Town Group of painters while his Scottish dancer mother showed her creative flair in a different way.

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He taught, and became associated, with some of the most accomplished artists of the 20th Century. Exhibiting at London’s Redfern Gallery, in 1972 he was elected a Royal Academician. In later years he designed posters for the London Transport Museum.

In Hansons’ February 22 sale is Lot 227, Boy in Garden by Rosie Lee, estimate £100-£150. [Hansons]

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LOCAL Collectibles

by Maxwell Craven

Classic Histories Derby

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I wrote an article in Country Images about collecting local books, and threatened to continue the theme with further examples at a later date.

Since then, we have been concentrating on modern collectibles, but following three separate appeals from readers for me to continue with collectible old local books, I thought I might take a detour and look at the oldest printed accounts of Derby itself.

Pictures on this page.

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Pictures on this page.

Above: Simpson’s History, title page and slightly disappointing map (engraved by Henry Moore of Derby; a splendid artist, but clearly not one for maps).

Below: Glover’s History & Gazetteer, title page (1831/1833 2nd edition).

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he very first written account after John Leland appears in William Camden’s Britannia of 1610, but which is not only in Latin, but is also hard to come by and contains accounts of everywhere else too, as does the account in Britton & Bailey’s Beauties of England & Wales (1801 on). There were also one or two short notices written in the later 17th century, but key is the MS account by William Woolley of Darley Hall, written in 1713. It was only published in 1981, but was much plundered (being in various local collections from the start and probably in more than one copy).

Woolley wrote quite a full account of the town, and was followed by most who came after. The first was William Hutton, FSA (Scot) who published his History and Antiquities of Derby in 1791, devoting 320 pages to his subject. He was a native of the town, a former child employee of the Silk Mill and much of what he wrote is from personal experience which makes his book crucial, although he also quotes copiously from Woolley.

The book is 9 by 6 inches (octavo) and contains an east prospect of Derby as a frontispiece, by George Moneypenny, Joseph Pickford’s former carver, P P Burdett’s revised map of Derby and a number of engravings, also by Moneypenny who was a fine sculptor, but in my view less accomplished as a draughtsman!

A second edition – little changed – was printed in 1819, but which is less desirable to the collector. A reproduction version of 2017 should cost about £20-25 but an original copy is more

expensive and much scarcer: £480 was paid for one recently, although rebound in half calf. My copy has Horatio Walpole’s bookplate and is thus from the library at Strawberry Hill, which might add a premium, but £120-£180 should buy a serviceable copy, and less for the second edition.

In between came Samuel & Nathaniel Lysons’ History of Derbyshire (1817) with a Derby section closely based on Hutton but with a better map.

Robert Simpson was the next in the field, publishing A Collection of Fragments IIlustrative of the History and Antiquities of Derby, three parts in two volumes in 1826. Part one reproduces in full all the documents then available relating to Derby’s History whilst part II is an account of the topography, churches and buildings. Part three contains biographical notes, lists of Mayors MPs and High Sheriffs and so on – all very useful, if hardly gripping reading!

For both volumes, complete with folding map and lithographic illustrations, you will need £200 plus – one dealer is currently asking £150 for volume II only! – but the 2015 paperback reprint usually costs £30-35.

The classic history is that of Stephen Glover, being an amplification of his 1827 directory of the county (published, confusingly, in 1829). That same year he published volume one of a projected History and Gazetteer of Derbyshire, which consists of a general history, natural history, manufactures etc, plus 17 useful appendices, reprinting documents, many of which had eluded Simpson, including the town

annals in full, a document since lost in the 1841 Guildhall fire.

But just for a good history of Derby itself, one requires volume two (he never published any more volumes, due to a variety of problems) which came out in 1831. This has nearly 500 pages with 250-odd devoted to Derby, with lots of (well-known) woodcuts and some good engravings. In the same year Glover published a revised volume I and in 1833 came the best, revised volume II, now 623 pages. The first edition now goes for about £140 plus, the second for £60-180. However, he also had imperial octavo editions printed, like mine, which normally go for over £200. A single volume II of either edition now costs between £50 and £80.

The Derby section of Glover’s history was revised again in 1843 (with a gazetteer and directory), reprinted in hardback in the 1990s by Breedon Books, this going for some £15 these days, although the original makes between £50 and £80 in good condition and there is even an 1858 version usually obtainable (but very rarely available) at the same sort of price.

One nice chatty book about Derby which is readable and includes some quirky asides is John Keys’ Sketches of Old Derby and Neighbourhood, a limited edition on high quality paper and binding published by Bemrose in imperial octavo in 1895. Keys was an exemployee of the China Factory, so adds some fascinating insights. It is a handsome book and contains a number of engravings, some of unfamiliar buildings. It also reproduced the famous 1712 plan of The Friary. Ex-library and well-thumbed this should cost no more than £25, but for a good copy you must expect to pay up to about £80.

In 1909 came A W Davison’s Derby, its Rise and Progress which is a handy account as far as it goes, as is its close cousin, W. A. Richardson’s Citizen’s Derby, of 1947, issued to all Borough Schools and therefore quite common and inexpensive (£10-15) Neither has any pretension to scholarship, and much of the information has been modified by later research.

Finally, there is Llewellyn Eardley Simpson’s Derby and the ’Forty Five, published in London

by Philip Allen in 1933 and fairly scarce. Despite being pretty fiercely partisan in favour of the Jacobite cause, it is very detailed and useful, drawing together all the available sources including those in the Royal Archives, and reproduces some in full.

There is also a sort of prosopography of those involved, setting out their backgrounds, careers, and allegiances or suspected allegiances. It is also very helpful in identifying buildings and is sound on what Derby was actually like two hundred years before. This should be available for £30-40 in average condition, although pristine more like £50-60.

Subsequently, research has transformed the story of Derby, especially in its first thousand years and in its role in the Midland’s Enlightenment, but those books which tackle these matter are relatively cheap and plentiful.

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Top: Glover’s History, Vol. II: Derby’s new Guildhall, engraved plate and facing text.

Middle: Frontispiece and title page of John Keys’ Sketches of Old Derby (1895) Bottom: Title page of Eardley Simpson’s Derby and the ’Forty Five with frontispiece of Bonnie Prince Charlie in later life.

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Having swifts as neighbours is enjoyed by many homeowners. Research by University of Gloucestershire Masters student Sarah Roberts in 2018 showed that people welcome the birds living on the outside of their homes. When asked whether they thought built-in boxes for bats or for birds like swifts were a good idea, 61% were positive and 36% unconcerned about having them in their own homes.

The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) National Nestbox week, 14-21 February, is the perfect time to get bird boxes up.

In just a few months’ time, swifts will be making their epic 6,000 mile journey here from Africa to bring up their chicks. But for many, the chance to lay their eggs will be thwarted: our buildings are changing and their former homes under the eaves are gone, as are the spaces we used to leave for them. These birds are now vanishing from our summer skies: half have gone in just twenty years.

So the RSPB is appealing to the public to help provide as many new homes for them as possible.

Just 1,000 additional new nestboxes could make a difference.

Swifts are incredible birds, spending most of their lives on the wing and only landing when it’s time to nest. After flying its nest for the first time, a young swift may spend two or three years in the air, eating, drinking, sleeping, bathing and even mating! The swifts that nest in the UK arrive here in late April - May and may spend just

3 months with us; soaring and swooping over rooftops catching insects to eat.

But they’re in serious trouble here, with numbers down to less than half of what they were just twenty years ago. Modern buildings lack the nooks and crannies they need, and swifts are struggling to find homes.

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There are special swift nestboxes available, and if you’re having a building constructed or renovated, there’s also the option of the ‘swift brick’. This replaces a standard house brick and can easily be installed by a builder. Swift nestboxes and swift bricks can work especially well when put up in groups, as these birds like to be near other swifts.

RSPB swift lead Jamie Wyver said “We know how to give swifts the new homes they need

“We need local councils and developers on board as they have the power to make an enormous difference” Jamie Wyver said “Think of all the new building that’s going on around the UK: with a few tiny changes we could be providing millions of homes for swifts.”

Some developers are already integrating swift homes into new buildings. Prince Charles’ Duchy of Cornwall estate has a policy of providing one swift box for every new home on average and has already installed more than 500 swift boxes in Duchy developments from Cornwall to Oxfordshire, with thousands more in the pipeline. Barratt Developments Plc have added 200 on their Kingsbrook estate in Aylesbury and have plans to install many more around the country.

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Travelling back in time a few millenia, Brian Spencer describes what the Peak District looked like when land that became the British Isles was part of a tropical island situated near the Equator.

A reef mound once battered by a tropical sea

series of small inter-connected abandoned limestone quarries off the road to Ashbourne, near the top of the hill marking the boundary between Wirksworth and Cromford, close to Steeplegrange miniature light railway, hold a unique record of the limestone rocks formed in an ancient sea, long, long ago. This record has been preserved as the National Stone Centre. Access is free and a short, easy walk of less than a mile, takes us back to a time before we humans walked on the earth.

What eventually formed the Peak District would have looked not unlike today’s Bahamas. A shallow lagoon surrounded by jagged reefs and dotted by small active volcanos, stretched from what is now roughly on a line between Ashbourne, Wirksworth, Matlock and Ashover in the south and a similar line from Buxton to Castleton in the north; its other boundaries followed what is now the Derwent Valley and the Dove and lower Manifold Valleys. This is now called the White Peak in acknowledgement of the colour of limestone laid down millions of years ago. Standing in the Stone Centre, facing the direction of Wirksworth, to your front would have been a deep ocean, whilst to your rear would stretch a roughly oval shallow lagoon teeming with corals, shellďŹ sh and creatures similar to water lilies. The one unique feature of all these plants and animals was that they had shell-like structures and when they died in their countless billions became limestone, the raw material of a major Peakland industry.

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Following The Stone Centre Trail F rom the car park above the High Peak Trail walk down the Stone Centre access drive, past a restored limekiln on your left near the railway. Pass Geosteps an amphitheatre of stone benches, each level made of stones ranging from the oldest at the bottom, gradually moving in time to the youngest at the top. Although the trail proper starts at the Visitor Centre, the track passes the blocked-off top of a lead mine, a now dead Peak industry exploiting the result of minerals deposited during the time of volcanic activity.

There is a small, but easy to understand set of details, mostly posters fixed around the walls of the Information Centre café, browse on them, building up your knowledge before setting out on our voyage back in geological time.

Plaques on the site of features mentioned below also explain what you are looking at.

Point 1.

Looking out to sea.

To the right outside the café entrance, a short hop past a line of parked cars leads to the first viewpoint. Here and with a little imagination, you are standing on a tropical island in mid ocean. This was a narrow strip of land forming a wave-washed reef, the edge of a shallow lagoon.

Warm water was to the rear, fronting deep sea in front.

Once as plentiful as today’s mussels, they more or less died out. They lived on the muddy sea bed with their convex sides face-down. Nearby there is the circular top of a coral, a plant-like creature that thrived in water heated by strong sunshine.

Looking at the lower sections of undamaged fossilised remains, it can be deduced that the sea bed was calm, but higher up the fossils are damaged and jumbled, a sure indication that this was where waves came crashing in from the deeper ocean.

Point 2.

Rock shelves

Point 3.

Limestone beds above the lagoon

Moving on to the trail proper, the next feature is a series of rock shelves topped by a rock tower created by a local artist. What at first looks like nothing more than whitish rock is, after a closer look, made from the fossilised remains of billions of creatures that once lived on the surrounding sea bed. Most are easy to identify, from hollows made by the two halves of clam-like brachiopods.

Moving round to the left, following the quarry face, the path leads into a cul-de-sac above a worked-out part of the quarry. Here are limestone beds that were deposited in the bottom of the broad, shallow lagoon. The debris is composed of the remains of shells and even faecal pellets and parts of skeletons, suggesting that larger creatures fed on lagoon life. This was the

lagoon that eventually became the White Peak of Derbyshire. If you look carefully, you may notice that the beds tilt very gently to the east, a feature caused by much later earth movements also left vertical fractures or joints between the beds.

Point 4.

A mineral vein and crinoid beds Turn back along the track leading to the limestone beds and go down a short flight of steps in order to stand beside a rock face to your right.

You are now looking at the side wall of a fracture in the limestone face. These fractures were later filled by mineral rich, hot liquids that interacted chemically with the limestone to form lead-based compounds such as galena, barite, fluorspar and calcite. The vein you are looking at was once part of a worked out mine, but you can still see tiny grey flecks of galena (lead sulphide) and barite (barium sulphate). This vein, incidentally, is aligned east-west, a feature typically prevalent to Peak District veins or rakes.

Turning round to face the other direction, you will see that instead of a vertical rock face you are now in front of a sloping mass of dark grey rock. This is all that remains of the back slope of the reef sheltering the lagoon, away from the open ocean. Towards the base there are the fossilised remains of creatures called crinoids which are related to modern starfish. They fed by filtering seawater through their frond-like arms to catch microscopic plankton, whilst attached to the seabed by long stems. The stems being the strongest part means they were more likely to be preserved. Unlike other places where the stems are broken into fragments, many of the stems hereabouts are almost intact; indicating that conditions at the back of the reef were calm and sheltered.

Point 5. Standing at the top of the reef mound.

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slopes away evenly in all directions – something that probably happened in the later times.

Following the path, you will pass the Millennium Wall. Using appropriate rocks, sections of it are made in the dry stone walling styles from all over the UK.

Point 6.

Inside the reef.

The path curves round to the right beyond the Millennium Wall, making its way to the bottom of the remains of part of the quarry. Because it has been quarried in the past, you will be standing inside the reef. Notice how the limestone rather than be in neat beds as in the lagoon, instead forms a solid mass of limestone, similar to what we saw at the last stop. Look to the east and into the main part of the quarry, here the dark grey limestone at a lower level gives way to paler brown rock. Look for the junction of the two rock types – it has a zig zag shape, an indication that this part of the reef was once exposed to the waves. Later the reef sank, possibly due to changes in sea level, or earth movements and the eroded surface of the reef was filled by another type of limestone.

Point 7.

Looking into the deep blue sea.

At the bottom of the quarry you are at the edge of the reef and gazing towards a deep pre-historic sea.

Looking into the quarry, you can see that the now un-beded limestone is much thicker to the left with thin layers on top – these are made of fragments of

The Millenium Wall features different techniques throughout the UK N.B. Take care near open quarry faces and do not use hammers to collect samples. rock from higher up the reef that rolled down the slope.

This point marks the southerly end to limestone in the Peak, beyond this point you will find only mud and sand, the bottom of a once mighty ocean.

What happened next?

Steady movements of the tectonic plate on which Britain stands moved colliding with another land mass, this in turn became the rock of the Dark Peak, with a nearby outlier called Black Rocks.

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“Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home, A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there”, in the real world that we each live in, not some fantasy world, our home can be where our heart is. If we are happy and content there, wherever it may be, this can be our haven, a place to relax.

Because of that inner feeling we want to make it just right for us, and therein can lie a problem the US. We have a tendency to think that our taste is everyone else’s. We need to think in percentages, what will appeal to the highest percentage of people. Of course if your house is your ‘forever’

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We tend to think straight away of a new kitchen, extensions, conservatory, or loft conversion. Why not consider smaller scale tasks.

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INSIDE&OUT to alter the stairs to create bookshelves? Or similarly ask him to provide shoe storage.

Decorating is a relatively simple task that’s within the skill set of most people. Enliven your principal rooms with a paint brush or a wallpaper brush. New flooring can drastically enhance room appeal.

There are a diverse range of ‘how to’ videos on various social media outlets showing not just how to do a task but also the tools needed, the materials required, the cost and time commitment. It could be made fun if the whole family got involved even if the role of someone was to mop sweaty brows, or make cups of tea, or help you count to 10 after you’ve hit your thumb with a hammer.

Similarly outside, would modest alterations make the kerbside appeal greater? Some bright and cheery planting, simple things like snowdrops, crocus and daffodils, getting the yard and drive cleaned with a pressure jet. Build a funky little hidey hole for your dustbin and recycling bin rather than having them on display. It doesn’t have to be elaborate and if your bin is mainly in the sun during the day the extra shading this provides can keep it cooler and less smelly!

But perhaps you do want or need something a bit more extensive and expensive. What about extensions, lofts, kitchens and even swimming pools! We’ll discuss those in an article next month.

OUTDOOR BUILDINGS Garden offices

The idea of having a garden office grows more and more popular among professionals and those who just need that little extra space without going to the expense of building something permanent.

The benefits for the professional wanting to work from home is quite obvious – it cuts down travel time and costs. Within a few short steps you are at work and up and running, and your coffee is still piping hot.

Whilst some convert a spare room in the home, it still seems to be that a separate garden building has a definite ‘work free’ effect as you stride from one building to another whilst enjoying the garden. While extremely usable as an office, the space can also come in handy when having friends round for a garden party, or to stay.

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Garden sheds It is a growing trend for many of us, to leave our cars on the drive rather than put them in the garage. This leaves room for the garage to be converted naturally into an extra room in the home. But.. where does the mower, garden tools, bikes, paint and all the junk we gather over the years go? In the shed if you have one of course.

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Wet rooms are basically shower rooms that do away with a cubicle, tray and the cold shower curtain that likes to cling to you. A walk in shower enclosure or wet room allows you to create a beautiful open space within your bathroom which provides you with a much larger showering area offering comfort and practicality. Wet rooms are becoming more and more desirable, and are a great way to add value to your home.

They need to be installed by a professional as a gradient, normally a sub floor, needs to be created to allow water to flow into a drain. Along with this the area itself needs to be tanked (waterproofed). But, don’t be fazed by all that as local bathroom companies are adept at carrying out this type of job and will be happy to quote you. The final effect of a wet room is quite outstanding.

Here at Hydropool Midlands we offer high quality Hot Tubs and Swim Spas which are the only manufactured tubs with a built in floor vacuum system. Hydropool Inc. is one of the largest hot tub manufacturers in the world, and is committed to building superior hot tubs utilising the latest technologies, with the latest environmental practices.

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INSIDE&OUT Getting the stairs right.

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Stairs get a lot of bad publicity as most accidents in the home seem to happen on them, which is crazy because they don’t move about much! Ours have been in the same place since the house was built and yet I can miss the last one coming down and also trip over it on the way up depending on what I have on my feet or whether I am concentrating or not. So it’s me at fault.

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There’s an optimum rule that stairs should have an angle between 30 and 45 degrees.

Over 50 degrees and they are classed as dangerous, and then after that you’re into ladder territory. Francois Blondel, a French architect, was the first person to establish a rule for staircase design. In 1675 he devised a formula (there’s always one!) ‘twice the riser height plus the tread depth equals 24 inches (60.96 in today’s cms). Blondel’s formula is still used today but apparently it doesn’t always work.

Possibly due to the wine! Looking at the pictures above it is possible to make great use of the staircase and for it to be a very functional part of the home.

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Gardening in March with Mark

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ike many people in horticulture you tend to spend a lot of time looking at the weather forecasts. So far, March is predicted to be warmer and drier than last year. Your pansies might not have performed like they used to (because of the wet weather) but primulas and spring flowering bulbs will; so stock up with those to give you much needed colour for this time of year. Now everything is starting to show signs of life in the garden it’s good practice to put a handful of general purpose fertiliser around the base of your new and semi-new plants.

This month there are plenty of ready done baskets and containers in the garden centre; if you don’t have the know-how to plant your own. This will save you the effort and also saves buying extra plants and compost you may not need.

General Garden Maintenance

• Refresh alpine gardens with new grit and replace any old plants that may have died over winter.

• Refill any bird feeders with new seed or nuts and provide fresh drinking water.

• Check borders for new emerging weed seedlings and hoe them out.

• Weather permitting, tidy up the lawn by trimming new edges with a half moon and give the lawn a cut setting the blades on high.

• Dig in plenty of home-made or nursery bought compost in to borders ready for planting herbaceous perennials or summer flowering bulbs.

• Buy summer flowering bulbs now such as gladioli, lily and eucomis.

• Lift and divide large clumps of herbaceous perennials and trade them with friends or neighbours.

• Prune hard back last year’s buddleia stems to ground level.

• Last chance to prune roses back to new shoots.

• Feed and mulch rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris and camellias with ericaceous (acidic) plant food and compost.

• Sprinkle fertiliser over flower beds and around shrubs and roses • Check your garden for plants that didn’t make it through the winter, look in nurseries or garden centres for “bargain plant” areas these can sometimes have more than 50% off.

In the Allotment or Vegetable Patch

• Sow vegetable seed; it’s cheaper than buying bigger plants. Crops from vegetables often produce more than you can use so again trade the surplus

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with friends or family. Nurseries and garden centres will have a growyour-own section with seeds, trays, compost etc. to get you started.

• Sow the following crops outside or under cloches: carrots, beetroot, broad beans, salad onions, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, leeks, lettuce, rocket, coriander, mixed salad or stir fry leaves, radish, turnip, peas, and Swiss chard.

• Spread a layer of sulphate of potash fertilizer around fruit trees and soft fruit.

• When they appear, spray new leaves of peaches and nectarines with copper fungicide to reduce or prevent peach leaf curl.

• Sprinkle cabbages and other brassicas with pelleted chicken manure or blood, fish and bone.

• Check fruit trees for “suckers” or grass around the trunk and remove, also put a handful of garden lime around the base of the fruit tree.

• Plant early seed potatoes outside in rows, in large pots or potato bags.

In the Greenhouse

• Buy your summer bedding “plug” plants now, they are cheaper than buying a “finished” plant from a garden centre later in the year.

• Sow dwarf French beans in a large pot for an early crop in June.

• Sow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and other greenhouse crops in a heated propagator • Plant up a strawberry hanging basket and leave in the greenhouse for early crops.

• If the weather gets warmer look out for whitefly and red spider mite, and treat at once with a suitable pest control.

• Continue sowing summer bedding plants which include marigolds, tagetes, verbena, zinnia, nicotiana and dahlias in the greenhouse.

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She tries to get back to Nottingham as often as she can to see family which includes Nottingham Forest legend Garry Birtles who is her cousin.

Speaking from Dartford during a stop-off on the tour, Sherrie explained how fantastic it is to hear people laughing at the show, what she’d like to appear in next and why the Mayor of Nottingham wasn’t happy with her the last time she performed in the city.

She says the response from audiences at Benidorm Live has been “phenomenal”.

“The producers have said they’ve never seen anything like it because audiences are standing and screaming.

In all my hundreds of years in this business I’ve never seen a reaction like it. When each one of us comes out the audience goes wild. At the end they’re up on their feet screaming. It’s just extraordinary.

“I said to the boys (in the show) ‘you’ll never see this again in your lifetime’. It’s the love of the ten years of the show and love of the characters.”

Sherrie points out that some of the people who’ve seen the live show have never watched the television programme. One family in Dartford said they had never laughed so much in their lives and booked to see the show again later in the week.

Benidorm Live starts where the last television programme finished, with a hotel chain trying to take over the Solana.

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Sherrie says the difference between the television series and the stage show is that the actors can hear laughter.

“Usually we’ve only got a crew watching us who want to go for lunch.”

herrie Hewson is feeling a little bit emotional. The Nottinghamshireborn actress is delighted to be returning to Nottingham’s Theatre Royal in a show that has provoked a “wild” reaction from audiences. But she’s also sad to be saying goodbye to a character she’s become synonymous with as well as a group of actors who she regards as family.

Sherrie has been on tour for the past six months in the stage show of the television series Benidorm. She plays hotel manager Joyce Temple-Savage, a “wonderful” part which writer Derren Litten penned with Sherrie in mind.

But there’ll be no more Benidorm on TV. Although Litten is writing a film featuring all the usual Solana Hotel guests and staff, the stage show gives the cast the opportunity to say farewell to the fans who’ve helped it to win a BAFTA for best situation comedy as well as other national television awards.

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She joined the television series at the start of series five in 2012.

“It was amazing from day one. Joyce Temple-Savage will stay with me forever and Derren wrote the part with me in mind, which is a wonderful thing to happen to an actor. When I first read the script I could actually hear my voice. So that’s how wonderful it was and still is.

“I will miss playing her because I love her quirkiness and everything about her. You put a lot of yourself into something. So when Benidorm goes, part of you goes. We’ve invested a lot of our lives in the show.

That will be the sadness.”

Sherrie Lynn Hutchinson was born on 17 September 1950 in Burton Joyce. She first trod the boards when she was four.

“My mother used to model at the Theatre Royal. I was a little girl in a big dress with white socks and white sandals and I used to walk behind her.”

As a child she performed at Nottingham Arts Theatre with Su Pollard in Whistle Down The Wind. She

trained as a ballet dancer in Nottingham along with Janine Duvitski who plays Jacqueline in Benidorm.

After going to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Sherrie’s career took off with television appearances in Z Cars and the prison drama Within These Walls.

In 1975 she was cast in Carry On Behind and her talent for comedy led to her being invited to join Russ Abbot’s Madhouse where she was an integral part of the team for more than ten years.

More recently she has become known as accidentprone supermarket assistant Maureen Webster in Coronation Street, Lesley Meredith in Emmerdale and as a panellist on the ITV lunchtime show Loose Women for 13 years.

Now she is returning to the Theatre Royal where she last appeared in 2017 as Mrs Potts in Beauty And The Beast.

She tries to get back to Nottingham as often as she can to see family which includes Nottingham Forest legend Garry Birtles who is her cousin.

But she’s not a fan of how the city is changing. “I hate it that Nottingham has been messed about architecturally. When I did panto there I said to the Mayor ‘will you please leave Nottingham alone! We want the old Nottingham, not what you’re doing’. I don’t think he was very happy with me.”

Back to Benidorm and Sherrie believes it’s so popular because it has replaced the Carry On films.

“Benidorm is quintessentially British, it’s everything the Carry Ons were and it’s postcard British comedy which everybody loves. Every time I hear the music it makes me smile.

“It’s quite near the knuckle sometimes in exactly the same way a pantomime is. But you could never take offence at Benidorm.”

How much of Sherrie is in the character of Joyce Temple-Savage?

“Well, she’s a kind of heightened version of me really.

She’s a victim, she’s quite sad, she’s a strong woman with a big work ethic, like I have.

“I like her because she’s a survivor. Whatever you throw at her she’ll get up for another day and fight. I think she’s quite lonely and I feel sorry for her sometimes. But she’s her own worst enemy too because she’s too strong, been on her own too long and will fight her corner rather than back down.

“I guess that’s part of me and the reason I survive in life – I’ve had knocks but I always kick them out of the way and get up and fight another day.”

Those knocks include being divorced from her husband after he admitted having an affair. But she has bounced back and when she’s not working loves to spend time with her grandchildren.

Her daughter Keeley has a son, 12-year-old Oliver, and a daughter, Molly who is eight. She will shortly give birth to Sherrie’s third grandchild. Sherrie is hoping to spend more time with them when she takes a break after the Benidorm tour.

After that she will be doing the Benidorm film and she would like to do a drama series. “I’d like to do Call The Midwife. The other series I like is Doc Martin. I love Martin Clunes. So I’d like to be involved in those two series.

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“There are a few things in the pipeline but I don’t think there’s any point in saying anything until you’ve signed on the dotted line.”

It seems fairly evident that Sherrie won’t be sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring. She’s more likely to be struggling to fit everything in or taking her pick of several jobs that she’ll be offered.

Whatever happens, Sherrie remains philosophical: “You never know what’s coming in our business. As they always say, one door shuts and hopefully another very large door opens.”

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Walking above the canal

The car park at the Cromford end of its namesake canal is a popular starting point for at least five walks to my reckoning. Most weekends and days in between, well-clad walkers will be congregating, busily pulling on their boots and at the same time, chatting to their friends.

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running south at Langley Mill to link with the Trent and Mersey Canal. Since its abandonment, the Cromford Canal has become a wildlife haven, one of the few places where you might find water voles ‘ratty’ of the Wind in the Willows. Pleasure trips, some horse drawn, can enjoy a gentle cruise along the water in summer. However the navigable section ends where it is joined with the remains of the Lea Mills arm. There is deep, but not dredged water for a mile or two as far as the outskirts of Ambergate, but beyond there will be impossible without major engineering work – the gas depot fills a massive hole cut into the line of the canal. Furthermore, the Butterley Tunnel became dangerous as far back as the 1920s, cutting off any route beneath Ripley. What is left of a navigable Cromford Canal remains as a wildlife sanctuary.

his walk starts, like all the others at the Cromford Wharf car park, before making its way over the river and under the railway, to join a path climbing steeply left up on to Bilberry Knoll. Almost immediately pleasant woodland tracks lead down to Lea Mills, before joining the long abandoned Lea Mills arm of the Cromford Canal. Turning right where the arm joins the main canal, the tow-path leads back to the car park by way of the information centre and railway workshops that once serviced trains hauled up and down Sheepwash Incline, on their way across the limestone moors to Whalley Bridge. You can get a coffee at the information centre, or more filling meals at the canal’s end.

Despite being short in length, this walk is long in interest, especially historical. Right at the start, the old buildings dotted around the wharf ’s car park, once acted as warehouses and offices for the canal company. The canal itself once linked the growing commercial interests of Arkwright’s Cotton Mills to the outside world, carrying raw cotton in, and finished yarn out. Alongside this, limestone from nearby quarries was shipped out in horse-drawn barges and coal from Nottinghamshire carried back. The Cromford Canal drove its way eastwards, passing beneath Ripley through a now abandoned tunnel, before

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canal in order to keep the level high enough for traffic. The pump, incidentally operates on advertised days (usually Bank Holidays), throughout the summer.

Much of the history of both the canal and Cromford and High Peak Railway is displayed in a simple, but effective display at the High Peak Junction Information Centre at the foot of Sheepwash Incline.

Even though the first part of the walk is along the road, it is full of interest. Look out for the Fishing Temple to your right of the bridge.

Beyond and below it are the scant remains of the medieval chapel where pre-bridge travellers prayed before crossing the dangerous Crom Ford.

Look also over the bridge parapet on your left for the sign briefly telling the story of a horse and rider who jumped into the river from this point.

The entrance to Willersley Castle is to the left beyond the bridge. This was to be Sir Richard Arkwright’s manorial home, but building was delayed due to a fire and he died before it was finished.

Continuing along the road in the direction of Crich, a narrow footpath leads under the railway and in about 60 yards, an awkwardly narrow stone stile climbs up into fields leading up to

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the ridge-top track across Billberry Knoll. On the way it crosses an unsurfaced track leading to two farms on your right. The first is Meadow Farm and the second is Castletop, one time home of Allison Uttley a famous children’s story writer in the 1920s. From the top of the hill, the track leads through woodland where bluebells

will flower in spring, down to Lea Mills. Still manufacturing high quality knitwear, it is the last still operating mill in the Derwent Valley. A dogleg will take you to the towpath of the abandoned canal. Follow it, over the railway as far as the main which will lead you back to the car park.

Useful Information

The Walk with Rambler

• From the canal-end car park walk out on to the road and turn right. Cross over the river and go past the entrance to Willersley Castle.

• Continue ahead where a side road bears left.

Go forwards to the railway bridge.

• After about 50 yards on the far side of the bridge look out for a narrow stone stile on your left. Climb through it and begin to walk directly up the steep hillside.

• Cross a farm track and continue on your way to the top of the hill, passing the boundaries of two stretches of woodland along the way.

• Go through a pair of old stone gateposts and then turn right to follow a woodland bridleway, downhill alongside the boundary of more woodland.

• In the corner between open fields and the woods, take the furthest left of a pair of footpaths and enter another section of woods.

• This is Coumbs Wood, famous along with its neighbour, Bow Wood for its bluebells in spring. Follow the path, winding downhill.

• Where there is a break in the woodland, take the left of two forking paths. Follow its winding route downhill through Bow Wood until you reach the roadside close by Lea Mills

woollen factory.

• Turn right along the road, and then cross over towards a group of houses.

• Turn left to walk along a path between two of the houses and walk up to the long abandoned Lea Mills canal wharf.

• Turn right to follow the footpath along the old tow path. Notice the swampy remains of the now ‘dry’ canal.

• Follow the path, going over a footbridge crossing the Derby/Matlock railway line.

Continue, now beside a water-filled section of the old canal, past the tumbled down remains of the once attractive cottage. The navigable end of the Cromford Canal is in front.

• Turn right along the tow path on your nearside of the footbridge. Go past Leawood Pumping House.

• Continue forwards along the path, past the swing bridge crossing towards High Peak Junction Information Centre. Use the tow path to reach Cromford Wharf about a mile and a quarter away.

4 miles (6.43km) of moderate field and woodland walking followed by level sections beside the Cromford Canal.

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3 Transitions Dance Company 7 The 2019 Triple Bill 8 Seth Lakeman 9 Henning Wehn - Get On With It 11 Mike and the Mechanics 12 Here Come The Girls 13 Shakin’ Stevens 14 Ben Fogle 15 An Evening with Brian Blessed 15-19 If Beale Street Could Talk 16 The Kid Who Would Be King - Autism Friendly 16-18 The Kid Who Would Be King 16 Rumours of Fleetwood Mac 17 A Night at the Musicals 19 Fire, Foxholes, Bullets and Barrows 21 Lil’ Jimmy Reed with Bob Hall & Hilary Blythe 22 English Touring Opera Macbeth 23 English Touring Opera - Elizabeth I 25 Widows 29 Kast Off Kinks 30 Samantha Wood Theatre Academy Come Alive 31 to April 1 Breakfast At Tiffany’s APRIL 2 The Royal Opera Live - La forza del destino 4 The Bootleg Beatles 5 Royal Northern College of Music Dolce Flute Quartet 5 Speakers From The Edge - Conrad Anker Hold Fast: Yosemite to Everest to Meru 7 Grand Gala Concert Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk MARCH 2 Boxmania II 5-9 Richard III - For three long and bloody decades, the House of York and Lancaster have fought for their right to the throne of England. 9 International Women’s Day Derby Festival 15 Far from the Home I Love 15 The Lindisfarne Story - The Lindisfarne Story is an affectionate and enthusiastic celebration of one of the UK’s most successful groups.

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Join them around the campfire to hear about some pretty awesome adventures from all over the world.

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7-8 Living With The Lights On 9-10 Legends: Sandra Taylor School of Dance 12 The Johnny Cash Roadshow 2019 14 Foil Arms and Hog - Craicling 14-16 The Funeral Director 15 Lost Voice Guy: I’m Only In It For The Parking 22 to April 7 Skellig - Family Friendly:Moving house has been hard for 12-year-old Michael, and now his baby sister is ill in hospital, it seems his whole world has been turned upside down.

APRIL 10 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2019. Get ready for an evening of inspirational adventure films coming at you from the wildest corners of the globe!

Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre MARCH 6-10 Guys N Dolls 12 Twirlywoos live 13 Good old days of Variety 19 The Addams family Musical 24 Swan lake 26-27 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 28 Roy Orbison & Travelling Wilburys 2019 29 Shawaddywaddy

Marlowe Players’

The Lady Vanishes

The Marlowe Players are to present one of their most challenging productions since they moved to Darley Abbey 11 years ago: a stage version of the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Lady Vanishes.

Director Martin Illston explains the difficulties: “The play is set on a train – in a railway compartment, outside that compartment and in a buffet car.

“It’s a huge thing to try to build a set which has all three elements. We haven’t got a wide space on our stage at Darley Abbey Village Hall, so trying to portray three different areas as well as a railway station at the beginning and the end of the play is quite a feat.”

Derek Webb has adapted Ethel Lina White’s 1936 novel The Wheel Spins on which Hitchcock based his film The Lady Vanishes. It features wealthy socialite Iris Carr who on a train journey befriends elderly governess Miss Froy. But when Iris wakes up after a nap she finds Miss Froy has disappeared – and everyone else on the train denies seeing her.

“It’s got a cast of 16 and there are some wonderful parts, people who have cameos playing a waiter or a nun,” says Martin.

“We’re trying to make the venue like a booking hall and front-of-house staff will be wearing railway costumes too. We want to make it an experience for the audience.”

An Evening With Brian Blessed at Buxton Opera House Friday 15 March 7.30pm

Larger than life? British actor Brian Blessed is known for his hearty, king-sized portrayals on film and television.

A giant of a man accompanied by an eloquent wit and booming, operatic voice. An Evening with Brian Blessed is an experience that nobody should miss. His eloquence and humour will have the audience captured from the moment he walks on stage until the moment he leaves. Tickets £28 from Buxton Opera House. To book, call the Box Office on 01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk

Rabbit Girl & The Search for Wonder Derby Theatre

By 154 Collective & Creative Scene Family Friendly. Saturday 23 March 2019 A new family show with music, animation and puppetry Something impossible has happened, something no one saw coming. So to cope with their sadness Rabbit Girl and her Dad have done what they do best - pulled on their boots, packed their tent and headed off into the wilderness. Join them around the campfire to hear about some pretty awesome adventures from all over the world.

Playful, poignant and with a little sprinkling of magic, Rabbit Girl & The Search for Wonder is a new show inspired by stories from lots of families.

Opera North Brings Season of Creative Collaborations to Nottingham Theatre Royal

19 March The Magic Flute 7.00pm • 21 March Katya Kabanova 7.30pm • 22 March The Rite of Spring / Gianni Schicchi 7.30pm 23 March The Magic Flute 7.00pm

Opera North returns to the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from Tuesday 19 March with a bewitching coming-of-age adventure, an intense tragedy and a double bill of iconic ballet and wickedly funny opera, as well as opportunities for families and schools to get a taste of the art form.

A new production of Mozart’s epic opera The Magic Flute is directed James Brining of Leeds Playhouse. Deftly weaving together comedy and darkness with Mozart’s beautiful music, Brining’s operatic debut features an international cast.

A specially-devised, shortened version of The Magic Flute has also been created for schools, to provide young people aged 7 and upwards with their first experience of opera on Wednesday 20 March. For even younger children there are two performances of The Mini Magic Flute, an interactive 30-minute

impossible to resist.

retelling of the story by a trio of opera singers, as part of the Theatre Royal’s Beanbag Music Club series ahead of the mainstage season on Saturday 2 March.

Janáček’s wildly beautiful tale of temptation, passion and guilt, Katya Kabanova comes to the stage on 21 March. With a weak husband and overbearing mother-in-law, Katya does her best to conform to the stifling expectations of her community, but when her husband goes away on business, temptation proves

Completing the season on Friday 22 March is a dance/opera double bill created in association with Phoenix Dance Theatre, the first ever collaboration between the two Leeds-based companies. The groundbreaking 1913 ballet The Rite of Spring is reimagined for Phoenix’s ensemble by internationallyacclaimed Haitian-born choreographer Jeanguy Saintus, influenced by the Vodou rituals of his homeland, for his UK debut.

The full Orchestra of Opera North performs Stravinsky’s famous score, so revolutionary that its premiere ended in a riot.

Tickets for the operas are priced from £15.00 to £62.00, with anyone under the age of 30 eligible for £10 tickets via Opera North’s Under 30s discount scheme. For more information and to book, visit trch.co.uk or call Box Office on 0115 989 5555.

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

The next two walks on 3rd March and 7th April should be full of birdsong as our spring migrants arrive. Meet at 10:00 in the visitor centre courtyard. Carsington Water. These FREE two hour walks are suitable for all and start from the Visitor Centre at 10am. Booking essential as they are always popular. Tel 0330 678 0701

was like in the village’s Military Hospital during World War 1 and learn about the lives of the Servicemen from the Parish who fought and were killed during the two World Wars. Find out why we are trying to save the derelict and disused Wingfield Station, a railway building of great historical and architectural importance.

Entry is free and refreshments will be served. visit www.southwingfieldlocalhistorygroup.org

Derby & District National Trust Members’ Group.

A friendly and vibrant group run by members, whose aim is to promote the National Trust and local properties. We organise a variety of enjoyable social events throughout the year. Why not join us for one of our evening meetings: 19th March 2019 Eric Boultbee will give a talk on the “Ecclesbourne Railway”. Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby for a short AGM at 7pm. Membership Secretary on 01332 703512 or email derby.members@nationaltrust.org.uk Members £2.50 / visitors £5.00 Non members very welcome.

Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 15 March ‘Egypt ’, by Andrew Kavalek.

All meetings start at 7pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS. There is a charge of £1.50. Contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 https://darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress. com/

Heanor Floral Art Group March 18th flower demonstration by Ellie Landy from Mapperley entitled Lets Party. 7pm. The Wilmot Street Welfare Centre. Wilmot Street Heanor. Everyone welcome, visitors £5. For further details Telephone 01332-880179.

Little Chester Local History Group March 21st at 7.30pm in Chester Green Community Centre, Old Chester Road, Derby, Judy Colby ‘From Rags to Riches - Wardrobe Mistress,’ - theatrical miracles? Admission nonmembers £2.

For further information Tel. 01332 559615 Spondon Historical Society March 11th at 7.30pm. ‘Curiosities of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire’ by John Taylor.

These include the weird, the wonderful, the sublime and the ridiculous, this promises to be an interesting evening. Spondon Village Hall, Sitwell Street, Spondon DE21 7FG Members £2.50 and Visitors £4.00. All are welcome.’

South Wingfield Local History group.

‘Then and Now’ Exhibition on Saturday 6th April, 10am - 4pm in the Parish Rooms, Church Lane, South Wingfield DE55 7NJ. An exhibition illustrating the changes in the life of the Parish over the last 150 years. See a visual comparison of people and places: depicting how things were and how they are today. Explore what life

Derby RSPB Wednesday13 March 2019 at 7.30pm Paul Hobson talks about “Urban Wildlife” Meet in the Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.00, for non-members £2.50 and juniors £1.00. Details on www.rspb.org.uk/ groups/derby Also Sunday 24 March - A Free Birdwatching Walk At Wollaton Park, Nottingham. Meet in the upper car park, near the Hall at 9.30am. Toilets and cafe on site, the walk should finish at about 12.30pm. Details on www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Derby Chamber Music Society 1st March at 7.30pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB A concert by Florian Mitrea (piano) Mozart: Variations on “Ah, vous dirais-je, Maman” Beethoven: Sonata in C, Op.53 “Waldstein” Schubert: Sonata in A minor, D.784 Liszt: Sonata in B minor also Friday 29th March at 7.30pm A concert by the Ensemble Mirage Quartet (clarinet, violin, cello and piano) Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35 (transcription) Messaien: Quartet for the End of Time Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) 01332 830585 www.derbychambermusic.org

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Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 19th March 2019 Flower Demonstration by National Demonstrator Tony Brown Entitled “For the love of Flowers” Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Venue: The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members £3.00. Non- members £7.00 For further details telephone 01332 558540 Derby French Circle Talks, quizzes, social and cultural events. Please come and join us for conversation and games in French. All levels of French spoken.

15th March: A talk in English about French glass: Lalique; Baccarat; Galle, by Sonia Jackson.

29th March: From the river Creuse to the Moselle on a bike, a treasure of discovery far from the beaten track. A talk by Maryse Wright St Edmund’s Church Hall, Kings Croft, Allestree, Derby DE22 2FN. On Friday evenings as listed below, from 7.15pm.

Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club Wyaston village Hall (DE6 2DR) on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 2:00pm. We have a mixed programme of visiting demonstrators, hands-on sessions under the guidance of more experienced members and a monthly competition.

2nd. March 2019 - Visiting demonstrator woodturner Rick Dobney.

6th.April 2019 - This is a hands-on meeting and in addition to the usual activities, member Tony Reindorp will be conducting a Marquetry workshop. If you would like to know more about the club, email your query to info@ddwc.co.uk or phone James Sharpe on 01335 344933.

Derby Wine Circle Meetings are held on the first Friday of each month at The Evergreen Club, Allestree – 7.30pm for 7.45pm. For further information contact Julie@Thebelks.plus.com 01159 328217 Gilllian.wall@Ntlworld.com / 01332 551447 Derby A Cappella We rehearse every Tuesday evening at Chester Green Community Centre, City Road, DE1 3SA from 7:30 until 10:00 p.m. and are now working on a selection of songs for 2019. If you would like us to sing at an event in 2019, or would like to come along and sing with us please contact:Gordon. Tel: 01332 518594 or gordonsavage@ yahoo.co.uk You can also view:www.derbyacappella.co.uk

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Folk and Acoustic Music Event: Winter: Wilson in Concert.

Tickets: £8.50.

A new venue for folk and roots music, opens its doors at the Lion Hotel, Bridge Street, Belper, on Thursday, 7 March at 8pm featuring top Lincolnshire Duo, Winter: Wilson.

They are back on the road after a hugely successful UK Tour with folk, rock legends Fairport Convention.

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Kip Winter and Dave Wilson bring an evening of extremely entertaining folk, blues and self penned songs on guitar, banjo and accordion from their highly acclaimed album “Far Off On The Horizon”.

Admission is by ticket only, £8.50 from the Ticket Hotline 01773 853428.

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The Concert Room at the Lion Hotel is an ideal venue for small music events, with comfortable surroundings, and there is ample parking in Field Lane Car Park.

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Gallery & Exhibitions Local artist Nick Proctor,

…is a local artist from Alfreton, Derbyshire. He has held workshops on airbrushing, and pastel pencil and also paints in acrylic, he has been selling his work for over 50 years. Nick is inspired by local landscape and wildlife, but also paints many different subjects including restored steam trains. Nick’s background is in print, but he has always loved art.

Illustrated; Image in oils of The Flying Scotsman in York Station.

Out Framed on the Market Place in Ripley have a selection of both originals and prints.

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Offering a diverse selection of artwork including original paintings, limited editions and sculpture, the gallery has something to suit everyone.

They are also very excited to be hosting an artist in attendance event on the 23rd March, the very talented wildlife artist Gina Hawkshaw will be exhibiting a fabulous collection of originals and will be in the gallery from 1pm to 3pm to meet with clients and answer any questions regarding her new collection. The exhibition will be available to view from 10am to 5pm.

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Dedicated dog rescues and charities that we work with at Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre

’m sure you’re all aware of the “Adopt, don’t Shop” slogan relating to the adoption of rescue animals rather than buying a new puppy/kitten from breeders. Some of the partnerships between Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre (SLVC) and the rescues are established from as far back as 2013.

Angels Small Paws Rescue is based in the East Midlands, but re-home unwanted and abandoned dogs from all over the U.K; they are very active on social media, so you may well be aware of them already. This team offer a lifetime rescue back-up to any of their re-homed dogs, all of which are neutered, vaccinated, chipped, wormed, and flea-treated before they go to their new “furever” home. Dogs that are under 8 years of age when adopted also go home with 4 weeks free insurance.

It’s at the health check, treatment, neutering, and chipping phase that we get involved at SLVC. A lot of the dogs that come into rescue may have been on the street for some time and have nutritional needs, as well as typical flea and worm burdens. Abused dogs can have injuries that require surgical management, or need medical intervention such as antibiotics. We try to limit the cost to these rescues as much as we can; literally every penny counts to them, especially

given the unfortunately large numbers that pass through their doors.

Caring for animals on a large scale really is a labour of love, especially for the two man team at Derby based Life Commitment Dog Rescue (LCDR). This started when they went for a pup at a rescue centre themselves and came away with an extra 4 paws that was going to be PTS! After the dogs in their care have had the gamut of checks and procedures done, a network of foster homes helps to look after them before permanent homes are found for them. The LCDR teams’ own dogs help teach “the ropes” to the majority of dogs that come to them.

Yappy Ever After was started in the timehonoured tradition of many rescuers, rescuing two dogs that were passed from pillar to post.

Originally this rescue was based in the East Midlands, but social media quickly increased its popularity and they now have a network of foster homes and supporters all over the country. Dogs from other countries such as Romania, Serbia and Cyprus have benefited from ‘Yappy Ever After’ efforts too.

All dogs undergo necessary treatment and extensive assessment before they leave for their fur-ever homes, and they have a life-time back up

from the rescue too. William Roach and Jack O’ Connell are two high-profile supporters of Yappy Ever After .

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association is an instantly recognisable name and was established in 1931. I bet there are a lot of you reading this who collected metal milk bottle tops as part of the Blue Peter appeal, or sent in name suggestions for Blue Peter dog Goldie’s puppies before they underwent selection for guide dog puppy training! It takes two years for a puppy to be trained as a guide dog for a blind or partially sighted person, and there are currently over 4,950 guide dog owners in the U.K. The “adopt a puppy” scheme is a very popular campaign; from a little over £1 per week you can sponsor a puppy and follow its journey as it progresses to a fully fledged guide dog. For your money you get “pup dates”, a photo album and pictures, personalised certificate of adoption, a magnet, and a calendar at the end of each year.

I’m sure I’m not alone in the admiration and respect I feel for all the rescue workers and volunteers out there; they do such an incredible job. If you can, go and check out the websites of the rescues and pop along to one of their events, fun days, or even do a sponsored event for one of them if you so wish! Donations of blankets, feed, toys etc. are always welcome too; as you can imagine, things wear out quickly.

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We used to have queues down the street. All my family helped out in the business because we were so busy.”

According to Teresa, her childhood was all about food – especially when an Italian restaurant was added to the business in 1986.

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“My sisters Diane, Netta and I all had little jobs like stocking shelves in the shop, cleaning tables and serving customers – I even did my homework in the restaurant,” she laughs.

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“I loved it. I was born in England but I am Italian by blood; I am passionate about the people, the sun and, most of all, the food. My mum says I was six or seven when I started asking if I could cook the Sunday lunch.”

Teresa admits she found it difficult to part from the family business even when she left school; “I became a window-dresser but I still worked at Lambarelli’s a few nights a week,” she smiles.

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he outskirts of Chesterfield on a grey and dismal morning seems an unlikely place to find la dolce vita.

But follow your nose into Lambarelli’s Italian Caffé and Pasta Bar on Chesterfield Road and you’ll be instantly transported from North Derbyshire to Southern Italy on an aromatic cloud of fresh herbs, strong coffee and sweet panettone.

It’s also the place to learn the secrets of the perfect pasta sauce from café proprietor and award-winning food producer Teresa Lambarelli.

But first, Teresa insists I meet her own food hero; her father Michele (79), who runs Chesterfield’s smallest delicatessen in a room at the back of the café.

“It’s like stepping back in time,” Teresa says with obvious pride.

“Our customers say they only have to walk into Lambarelli’s and they are on holiday in Italy.”

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Michele has been dealing with queues all morning but he still has the time to share with me the secret of a long and happy life.

“Goat’s cheese,” he beams.

“And pasta. It’s very healthy if you don’t eat too much of it. Add Italian coffee, sunshine and a glass of wine and you’ll live to be one hundred.”

These days, Italian food may be one of the most popular cuisines in the UK but this was not the case in the 1960s when Michele and wife Susan decided to open a delicatessen followed, in 1975, by a pizzeria.

“In those days, I’d be cooking garlic and people used to say ‘what is that smell?’ – they didn’t like it,” Michele laughs.

“I used to slice the pizza and get them to take just a little bite. One taste and they were hooked.

“I wanted a car and to buy a house and my parents had instilled in me that you have to work hard to get things – so I was happy to work two jobs. When my dad stepped back from the restaurant, I helped him run the pizza take-away.”

But Teresa had to re-think her busy life-style when her marriage broke down. Trying to work long hours – and look after her daughters Amelia and Sophia, then four and two-years-old – was impossible.

“I had to walk away completely and devote my time to the girls,” she recalls.

“Once they were both at school, I started on a beauty therapy course. One of my lecturers, Lisa Shannon, told me she would go to Lambarelli’s just to have my Bolognese. Lisa begged me to make her some pots of the sauce. She became my number one fan and, when I told her there was a gap in the market for an authentic pasta sauce, she encouraged me to set up a business from home.”

Devising sauce recipes was easy for such a natural cook; the hard part – as for any novice – was finding packaging, designing the labels and complying with all the regulations laid down by the environmental health department.

“It cost around £1,000 just to get my coal house converted into a store-room with separate handwashing facilities,” she explained.

“But it was worth the effort as I could fit the business around the girls. It became the lifeline I needed.”

Teresa has continued to develop her range of sauces; “I learned the basics of Italian cookery from my grandma as we’d spend the six-week summer holidays in Accadia di Puglia,’ she explains.

“That region of Southern Italy is famous for simple, rustic dishes. We never put preservatives or sugar in the tomatoes as they’re already acidic and self-preserving. But cooking is more than just food – it’s family, life-style and passion and I try to put all that in my sauces.”

The sauce business was launched in 2005 – one of the first customers being the prestigious Chatsworth Farm Shop. Six years, and much

critical acclaim later, Teresa was ready to expand into new premises, which led her back to Lambarelli’s.

“My sister Netta and husband Neil were trying to run the restaurant and take-away but it was too much and so the restaurant went up for sale,” she recalls.

“It was too dated to attract buyers but I realised it was ideal for my business. I transformed the floor below into a 20-seater café bar offering simple, fresh food and Italian coffee. I also modernised the upstairs restaurant and open every Saturday night.”

In the remaining hours, Teresa makes her celebrated sauces and other Italian delicacies like salad dressings, olive pastes and biscotti.

The hard work has certainly paid off. Teresa was pronounced Chesterfield Food Producer of the Year in 2017 – her third such title since 2013.

“I put my success down to dedication; I live for what I do,” she says.

“It helps that I have a great team behind me and loyal customers who come back time and time again.”

Teresa still visits Puglia as often as her hectic schedule will allow. “My grandparents have passed away but I still visit family and friends once a year,” she says.

“My eldest daughter Amelia, now 20, met her partner Biagio in Puglia when he was visiting his family. Today, they live in Rome. As a family, we still love everything about Italy especially food which is simple, hearty fare but always made with love.”

of Italian plum tomatoes, preferably from a delicatessen. Then a little salt and pepper and then bring to the boil, then it’s time for the most important stage.” This is it; the life-enhancing, palate-pleasing ‘secret’ ingredient which will transform my Italian dishes for life.

“Put the pan on a low light and leave for one and a half to two hours, adding some water if you need more liquid and fresh basil leaves at the end,” Teresa explains.

Who knew that the secret of Italian food does not come down to one or two mystery ingredients known only to locals – it’s about taking the time to watch the pot.

“You cannot rush Italian food,” she confirms.

“You have to give it your full attention – that’s the secret.”

Teresa Lambarelli’s Italian Caffé and Pasta Bar is located on Bakewell Road in Chesterfield.

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Teresa’s father, Michele.

At this stage, Teresa takes me into the kitchen to share some of the secrets of Italian cooking.

“You must use the finest ingredients – the best money can buy and sourced from Italy,” she begins.

“You need to create the right atmosphere. I always wear some red lipstick and listen to music when I’m cooking as it gets me in the right mood.

Cooking is all about love and passion and if you do it without either of those ingredients – you’ll be able to taste it.”

Teresa takes me through a basic ‘Napoletana’ sauce which is at the heart of so many of our much-loved Italian favourites.

“It requires extra virgin oil, in which you fry onion with two cloves of garlic – then a tin

Above: Lambarelli at the Chesterfield Food and Drink awards.

Left: Even the pasta is from their beloved Puglia.

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In addition to all the above and in further celebration of the second Anniversary, during the weekend of Friday 5th April – Sunday 7th April, Avanti will be offering customers fudge, a glass of fizz and 10% off in-store purchases (terms and conditions apply). Why not pop along to Avanti between Friday 1st March and Sunday 7th April to celebrate too? You could pick up a beautiful piece of jewellery at a fantastic price and view the fabulous pre-owned watches. If you visit the store during the anniversary weekend you could have a piece of hand-made fudge and enjoy a glass of fizz too.

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What constitutes a classic car?

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hilst reading a classic car magazine extolling the virtues of the Austin Allegro, a shiver ran down my spine. Memories of driving an Allegro with optical steering wheel didn’t shout ‘classic car’. The word classic is often linked with timeless quality or lasting worth but on the other hand I heard someone describe it as a ‘particular style’.

The Allegro did have a particular style awful. But that’s only my opinion which is why classic cars are right across the board of the motoring industry. Some are quirky, some have super performance or revolutionary bits and pieces. Lots of things make a classic car. You’ll see Ford Cortinas going for astronomic sums and, having had one myself, I can tell you it was a rust bucket on wheels but I would have it back tomorrow, so it’s a classic to me and many others.

The Triumph Stag was released with a dodgy “kettle” engine and yet what a looker it was and now sells for prices far exceeding its

original cost. I saw recently an MGB GT V8 which cost new in 1974 £2293 (I bet getting that three pounds knocked off was a challenge!!) on sale for £35,000. Over the last 45 years it had covered 4,000 miles complete with original mud flaps, although the doors didn’t fit very well. Maybe they never did. Who’d have thought that an MG would outdo a Rolls Royce Silver Spirit currently on sale at only £8,999? The same dealer had a restored 1966 Mini Cooper on sale for £59,995. Some of the prices are mind-blowing. Would you risk driving one of those on present day roads? Fortunately there are specialists around equipped to

Left: Does it get any blander than this? My old pedal car had more going for it. I need dials and switches.

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repair your classic car, and numerous scrap yards (or are they called dismantlers now?) to pick up the odd spare.

I greatly admire the mechanics who strip the old engines down and rebuild them. I had the opportunity to watch someone completely strip a gearbox and painstakingly re-assembled it to its original working order. That’s where the expert comes into play. If you’re tempted to buy an old classic then it’s a good idea, if you aren’t mechanically minded, to take a knowledgeable person along with you and have someone in mind who can carry out the work.

What surprises me is that old cars keep appearing in ‘old barn finds’ around the country having been left to languish and gently rust away. I’d love to find something like that. So back to what a classic is? Probably a bit like Bagpuss, a tatty old cat ‘but Emily loved him’.

For me I think it’s a car I once had and enjoyed driving and that gives me that same experience again with my own particular style. I can tell you right now it won’t be an Allegro but possibly a heap of rust just wanting to be restored and loved. I might even buy a white sheet to cover it with just to make it feel a bit special!

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A Mini Italian Birthday at CCA’s Practical Classics & Restoration Show Sale The Classic Car Auction (CCA) sale on the 23rd and 24th March, at the Practical Classics Restoration Show, NEC, Birmingham, is set to feature four classic Minis marking special moments in the marques 60th anniversary year.

The mighty Mini, a true icon of British motoring history, is celebrating not only its 60th anniversary but also 50 years of its star role in the famous film, The Italian Job. CCA are offering for auction, four fabulous editions amongst a range of these super little cars from this wonderful British marque. A one owner 1963 Mini, a Mr Bean replica, a low mileage “Italian Job” Limited Edition and a Rover Mini Cooper Sport all looking for a new home.

is a wonderfully presented one owner car which is sure to provide lots of fun for its next owner. In the late 80s it had a full body restoration and glass out respray, and has been stored in a heated garage. It comes with a Heritage certificate and the Buff log book.

For fans of the bumbling Mr Bean, a replica of the car made famous in the hit TV series is now being offered.

This car was treated to a bare metal restoration project

by Practical Classics magazine and assembled live at the 2017 Lancaster Insurance Classic Motor Show. It is now looking for a new home, after being with the current owner for the last three years. A fabulous little car with some modern tweaks and upgrades. Will provide lots of fun.

The 1963 Austin Mini 850 in bright red with only 47,000 miles is being offered with extensive history. This

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Your individuality can also be reflected through an assortment of interior design flourishes that match selected exterior colours. Contrast stitching on seat trims, steering wheel and floor mats; as well as coloured accents across the instrument panel, centre console and interior door handles, all complement unique exterior body colours on selected models.

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The Active X features a huge range of attractions including : • Active 17” 5-Spoke Alloy Wheels Shadow Black -Machined Finish • Partial leather heated front seats • Driver Assistance Pack: 4.2” screen, TSR, Auto High Beam • Ford SYNC 3 Navigation 8” touch screen • Electronic Automatic Temperature Control (EATC) • Keyless Start with Ford Power Starter Button • Cruise Control • Rain sensing wipers and auto-dimming rear view mirror.

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COMPETITION RESULT

WHERE DID THEY LIVE? Well, this was probably the closest run competition that I’ve been involved with judging.

Lots of entries and many of them right.

Some were caught out with Martha Longhurst. She was in Coronation Street

but lived round the corner at 7 Mawdsley Street. Sam Tyler originally lived in Hyde but we allowed Manchester/Salford as an answer but not ‘The Flat above Louigi’s Restaurant’ or Mars!! For additional information John Rebus lived in Craigmead Terrace, Cardenden, Fife before moving to his flat in Edinburgh, but his flat on Arden Street is allowed!

The winner of the competition who gets a meal for two at the Dovecote, Morley Hayes is Lyn Penny from Holbrook .

Well done Lyn you pipped them all at the post.

Five runners up will each receive a copy of Walk Derbyshire. They are Cynthia Allsopp, Codnor. Christine Frost,Belper. Patrick Burke, Stanley Common. Mrs E Quinney, Kilburn.

Eleanor Kupranek, Belper.

The answers...

1/ Mr Ben 2/ Tony Hancock 3/ Banana Man 4/ Yogi bear 5/ Top Cat 6/ Geraldine Grainger 7/ Martha Longhurst 8/ Hammy Hamster 9/ Batman 10/ Pastuso 11/ Thomas the Tank Engine 12/ Pat Clifton 13/ Sam Tan 14/ Rene Artois 15/ Alf Garnett 16/ Steptoe and Son 17/ Sam Tyler 18/ Homer Simpson 18/ Spongebob

19/ Sherlock Holmes 20/ Kenny McCormick 21/ William George Bunter 22/ John Rebus 23/ George Smiley 24/ Del Boy 25/ Doc Martin 26/ Ted Crilly 27/ Stacey West Shipman 28/ Jerry Leadbetter 29/ ‘Danny’ Danvers 30/ Eric & Hattie 31/ Sid and Jean Abbott 32/ Major Gowen 33/ Norman S Fletcher

52 Festive Road 23 Railway Cuttings East Cheam 29 Acacia Road Jellystone Park Hoagy’s Alley The Vicarage, Dibley 7 Mawdsley Street.Wetherfield The Riverbank Wayne Manor Gotham City 32 Windsor Gardens Sodor Greendale Pontypandy Nouvion, France Wapping Oil Drum Lane Hyde 742 Evergreen Terrace Springfield 124 Conch St. Bikini Bottom 221b Baker Street Colorado Greyfriars Craigmead Terrace, Cardenden, Fife 9 Bywater Street, Chelsea 368 Nelson Mandela House, Peckham, Portwen Parochial House. Craggy Island Barry island Surbiton Manderley 28 Sebastopol Terrace, East Acton Howard Road, Putney Fawlty Towers Slade Prison, Cumberland

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34/ Uncle Quentin 35/ Mr Blobby 36/ Pete and Dud 37/ Mr Carson 38/ Constable McGarry 39/ Winnie the Pooh 40/ Frodo 41/ Uncle Bulgaria 42/ Edward and Tulip Tattsyrup 43/ Joey Tribbiani:

44/ Toad.

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Care Homes Rated GOOD in your Area The Meadows Alfreton

The Meadows in Alfreton, is a purpose built care home with an even stronger sense of community.

With their recent “Good” rating, January 2019, from CQC. There’s more reasons than one to arrange a call-in. Give us a call to book a visit.

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Spencer Grove Belper Just celebrating 10 years since its opening in 2009, Spencer Grove, has a spacious yet homely feel layout and design. Here, we’re a family.

Give us a call to book a visit.

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Milford House Milford

A recently refurbished Grade II listed building Milford House is home to state of the art facilities as well as receiving their new “Good” rating.

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