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THE MANIFOLD VALLEY

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wo major Peakland rivers, the Dove and Manifold, begin their lives a little over a mile apart, high up on the gritstone moors of Axe Edge, between Buxton and Leek. They both ow south west, almost parallel to each other, separated by limestone ridges, before joining below Thorpe village; here they continue, now known simply as the Dove, southwards to enrich the waters of the River Trent.

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The river and its valley we are exploring is the Manifold. Unlike the Dove whose birthplace can be identified by a well that once provided drinking water for a farm at Dove Head, no single place can be identified as the true birthplace of the Manifold.

Several streams rise from the bleak shales of Axe Edge, but they soon join to make the Manifold.

But if one source must be identified then perhaps being the most northerly,

LEFT: The Mainifold River at Ilam BELOW: Throwley Hall, above the Manifold

it is the stream which rises near the Traveller’s Rest close by Flash village.

Few if any tributaries join from the east, but several including the Hamps, the Manifold’s major side stream, flow in from the west. At one time there were plans to flood a wide shallow basin below Longnor, but fortunately they were abandoned in favour of Carsington Reservoir. The underlying rocks are shales as far as Hulme End. Here the river starts to meet limestone, a rock so porous that further down the dale, the Manifold frequently disappears underground, only to surface at a well in the grounds of Ilam Hall.

Tiny farm-based villages dot the moors, with Longnor traditionally their focal point. The village sits on a high ledge above the Manifold and is where until recent memory that farmers brought their produce and animals for sale. Overlooking the cobbled square, the market house with

its scale of charges on a board above the entrance, is now a craft workshop and café. Classified as a Conservation Area, Longnor is one of those places where quiet wandering down narrow side alleys leads the traveller to the discovery of attractive cottages and scenes. The village was once part of the Crewe and Harpur Estate, a fact highlighted by the name of the inn opposite the old market house.

Although Longnor church was rebuilt in the 18th century, it stands on foundations at least 8oo years old.

Look for the tombstone of William Billinge, who, if we are to believe records of the day, was 112 when he died in 1791. He was a soldier who fought under the command of the Duke of Marlborough and faced death so many times in action, that he believed it had overlooked him.

A complex pattern of moorland roads run west then south above the

headwaters of the Manifold’s higher tributaries. One of them leaves the Buxton/Leek road beyond the Royal Cottage pub where Bonnie Prince Charlie is supposed to have rested on his march south. This side road, never dropping much below 1400 feet, winds its way south across the Morridge moors where the remote Mermaid Inn is the only habitation for several miles. As befits such a remote spot, a nearby pool is said to be the haunt of a mermaid who drags the unwary to their doom. The inn once looked after the needs of coal miners who worked shallow pits on the surrounding moors, but is now much more upmarket.

For several days on either side of midsummer’s day, the sun when viewed from the Mermaid Inn appears to set twice when it passes behind Hen Cloud to the north-west.

Warslow is on the Leek/Hartington road, a focal point for the surrounding

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farms. Again like Longnor, Warslow was a Crewe and Harpur estate village where the Calke Abbey dwelling family had a shooting lodge nearby.

Moving east along the B5054, limestone appears at Hulme End, continuing south towards Ashbourne. Engine sheds and station buildings are now an information centre at Hulme End using what was once the northern terminus of a light railway that joined the standard gauge Leek-bound line at Waterhouses. Intended to find most of its trade carrying milk, it was also popular with passengers who travelled in its yellow-liveried coaches hauled by

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locomotives resplendent with massive headlamps; they came this way seeking the delights of the Manifold valley. Never profitable The Manifold Valley Light Railway became known as the railway that went from nowhere to nowhere, it was opened in 1904,but only ran until 1934.

Since then the track has been converted to a cycle and walking trail.

A large round hill dominates the landscape immediately to the south of Hulme End. This is Ecton Hill, a hill which gives little hint of the fortunes won and lost beneath its green slopes. Copper and lead were mined here for over three centuries, and

although at one time its profits paid for the Duke of Devonshire’s plans to develop Buxton as a spa town, all that is left upon the surface are overgrown spoil heaps, the outflow from one of the mines close to the valley road and the restored Agent’s House (privately owned), with its green-coloured copper spire peeping through the trees.

While the Manifold Valley Trail follows the old railway, the riverside road leaves the valley at Wetton Mill. There is a small car park and café here, making it easy to venture further afield by climbing up to Thor’s Cave where our ancestors dating from pre-historic to Romano-British times

LEFT: The view of Thorpe Cloud from Ilam Hall Gardens.

1947, tragedy struck when an aircraft crashed while attempting to drop emergency supplies, killing all of the crew. A steep hair-pin-bended road links the villages above both banks of the Manifold, crossing it at Weag’s Bridge.

Set back from the lip on the eastern side of the valley, beyond Thor’s Cave, Wetton is a delightfully laid-out village surrounding its award winning real ale pub. The village was once the home of Samuel Carrington, who, together with his friend Thomas Bateman of Middleton-by-Youlgreave discovered many Romano-British and Neolithic remains throughout the Peak District. once sheltered. Earlier still, the shallow cave became the lair of hyenas and sabre-toothed tigers.

At Wetton Mill, the river makes the first of its disappearing acts beneath the fissured layers of limestone, only reappearing finally at a ‘boil hole’ below Ilam Hall, about seven miles downstream. A waterwheel once powered Wetton’s mill by water carried along a leat that can be still traced from where it took water from the main river about a mile upstream.

Three villages sit high above the valley. To the west is Butterton and across the fields, its neighbour, Grindon. Both are peaceful, little known places, but during the Great Blizzard of

The light railway, now the Manifold Valley Trail left the main valley a little way beyond Weag’s Bridge in order to follow the Hamps Valley upstream to Waterhouses. Downstream along the Manifold there is no valley-bottom road or track from below Beeston Tor. This is where a dig in 1924 yielded a hoard of Saxon coins and two silver brooches; the coins have been dated from about AD871. More or less opposite on the valley side and connected by a minor side road running from above Waterhouses to Ilam, the ruins of the original Throwley Hall stand beside its later version as a farmhouse. The defensive pele tower, a rarity in the Peak District can still be seen from the road. Pele towers, mostly found around the Scottish Borders were places where animals

BELOW: A walk down ‘Paradise Walk’ Ilam

and humans could sheltered when under attack. Castern Hall a mile or so further down the dale dates from the sixteenth century and has been owned almost without interruption by the Hurt family for at least 370 years.

The river gradually flows, devoid of the light of day before it reaches Ilam, with odd stretches running on the surface before joining with the last resurgence at the boil hole below Ilam Hall. Here the valley begins to widen, especially where the two dales join and it becomes more pastoral. Ilam Hall and its estate village of Hansel and Gretel houses was built by Jesse Watts-Russel, a rich London merchant who erected it on the site of a Tudor mansion.

The Tudor-Gothic styled building is now owned by the National Trust and is run as a youth hostel; along with a café in the old stable block. Abandoned in the 1930s, the demolition squad moved in and had pulled down the section between the house and church. Fortunately this act of vandalism was stopped by Sir Robert McDougall, a Manchester flour merchant who had the remaining part of the hall stabilised before handing it over to the National Trust. The hall’s grounds are open to the public, along with the tree-lined path known as Paradise Walk.

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Above: The drawing room, west window, photographed

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Above: The portico with family group, photographed

by Richard Keene c. 1860 [George Cash] His son, Nicholas, a benefactor to the new priory at Tutbury, seems to have established a house in the manor, although there is no hint of its appearance other than charters attesting to his having a ‘capital mansion’ there.

Two generations on his successor also held part of Wingerworth (with its lucrative coal) and had married an heiress who brought him Bradley and Mercaston, too. Various younger sons were settled on these properties – giving rise to the Culland and Osmaston families, amongst various other branches which kept the Brailsford name – but the senior line ended in 1356 when the daughter and heiress of Sir Henry de Brailsford carried the estate to Sir John Basset of Cheadle in Staffordshire.

Their son Thomas was described as ‘of Brailsford’, but he, too, left an only daughter and heiress, from whom the estate passed to the Shirleys.

The site of the Brailsfords’ house was presumably on the site of a large moat

recorded in the 18th century south east of the former vicarage, all trace of which had vanished entirely by 1949, when a survey failed to locate the least trace of it. As the Brailsfords were knights of the shire and produced Sheriffs of the county (then held in tandem with Nottinghamshire) their house was likely to have been fairly impressive; a two courtyard house of some pretension in all probability but we have, alas, no evidence as to its appearance otherwise.

Furthermore, with the death of Thomas Shirley in the early 15th century, the family had no use for the house and it was probably dismantled for its materials, unlike the family’s original home at Shirley nearby which was retained, much reduced, and adapted as a farmhouse.

From then until the 18th century there was no capital mansion at all in Brailsford, bar a couple of neat Georgian village houses, still extant, despite the baleful effects of having to live on the A52. Then in 1771 a local man, William

Cox, purchased much of the land in the parish from Washington Shirley, 5th Earl Ferrers, who was keen to raise money to pay for the rebuilding of the family’s main seat at Staunton Harold. When he was 81, old William Cox wrote smugly that ‘I was one month under thirty years of age when I purchased the Brailsford estate.’

His grandfather, also William, had been schoolmaster in the village and tutor to Lord Ferrers, although as Staunton Harold is really quite a long way from Brailsford (in 18th century terms) one has always harboured doubts about this. His son, another William, made his fortune trading flax and hemp, however, which is how the third William managed to buy the estate. He himself had already bought the Virgin’s Inn in Derby Market Place as a town residence (1763) and later established the lead works on the Morledge.

The estate in 1771 contained an old farm

Cox (1764-1846), set up home in the Brailsford house and, on marrying Gainsborough heiress Elizabeth Nettleship in 1813, had the house rebuilt and enlarged, although the resulting mansion – the new Brailsford Hall, still owed much to its mid 18th century rebuild; presumably Edward was as careful of his money as his father! Yet the extra room created would have been vital as the couple went on to have a son, William, and five daughters.

William Cox’s original rebuilding had created a two-storey brick house with rusticated lintels and quite a high slate roof, and it faced, like the Farmhouse that preceded it, largely SE. What Leaper did was to create a new range facing the lane of three bays, still two storeys, but each taller with the roof hidden behind a plain coped parapet. The windows were

shielded by cast iron sliding jalousies made by Thomas Glover’s foundry in Derby (later Weatherhead & Glover of Duke Street).

The entrance was placed to the left of the façade, to ensure that the main reception room, entered right from the hall, could be as spacious as possible. This was really a conceit normally confined to town houses where there was a restricted site – one thinks of 36, St. Mary’s Gate, Derby, where the superb saloon occupies the entire façade with an entrance, similarly, to one side. The accepted practice for country villas (as built by Leaper himself ) and seats, was a central entrance and a spacious room either side, but it may be that E S Cox, mindful of the relative newness of the house, forbore to knock the lot down and start again.

Above: A view of the park and garden, photographed by Richard Keene, jr. 25/8/1898 [George Cash] Left: Postcard view dated 1905 of the short-lived 1901 Brailsford Hall [M. Craven]

house on the site of the present hall SE of the village, which Cox rebuilt in brick in unpretentious and rather old-fashioned Georgian style, and began to improve the estate. His switch from flax and hemp dealing to lead smelting is partly to be explained by his marriage to Mary, daughter of Gilbert Soresby, a successful local lead trader.

Interestingly, William’s niece Margaret Lovatt went to America with her cousin, William’s like-named the second son. The latter founded an import-export business in Virginia whilst she married New England patrician John Cabot Lowell, whose son Francis was a co-founder of the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1820s and, dying before matters had been completed, gave his name to it, in lieu of ‘New Derby’ as planned). It was set up on his behalf by Kirk Boott II, whose Derby connections are well known.

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The rebuilt hall from the SE. A similar view to the first page, photographed

by Richard Keene, jr. 25/8/1898 [George Cash] The Doric portico itself was stone, and was flanked, left, by a single storey wing but with similar fenestration to the rest of this front, so clearly it held some kind of reception room. In fact the photographs taken by Reichard Keene in the 1860s suggest that it was a drawing room with a projecting tripartite bay to the west with sashes to terrace level. The angle between the 1771 house and the new façade was also occupied by a further bay, but containing two superimposed plain sashes (without shutters) indicating lower ceilings and presumably disguising rooms set aside for some more workaday function. The whole of the new wing was covered in Brookhouse’s Roman cement (made from ground alabaster/gypsum on the Morledge at Derby) grooved and painted to resemble ashlared stone work, but with the 1771 part only painted to match.

The grounds were clearly landscaped as a small park but the only clue we get to the quality of the interior is the one of the drawing room, suggesting that the Cox family steered clear of ornamental plaster ceilings, contenting themselves with decoration only on the cornices.

They here also dispensed with a dado, went in for floral wallpaper and seem to have re-furnished with furniture inspired

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by the Great Exhibition, apart from a pair of very refined Regency elbow chairs near the window.

The Richard Keene photograph of a family group standing in the portico seems to depict, left to right: Anne Mrs. Henry Moore Mosse (3rd daughter) holding baby William George, her brother William standing with Mrs. Mosse’s daughter, Anne sophia (later Mrs. Cadman), stood at his feet with Anne’s husband to the right. The date is remarkably early, c 1860.

With the death of William Cox in December 1900, however, his executors, finding no-one amongst his nephews and nieces wishing to live in the house, sold it and much of the estate to the philanthropic George Herbert Strutt of Bridge Hill House, Belper and Makeney House. He decided that Edward Cox’s old house was too much of a hot-potch to live in and, having almost unlimited financial means, promptly had it demolished and replaced by a fairly straightforward Jacobethan mansion designed by his favoured architect Col. Maurice Hunter of Belper, which having been completed was promptly let in 1902 to Herbert Strutt’s friend Col. H C Holland, then the chief constable of the county.

Not long after Strutt’s death in 1928, the house was severely damaged by fire ( July 1930), and the replacement was similar, but larger and spikier (also by Hunter).

It was sold in 1936 to the Daltons and in 1980 to the Clowes family, who still live in it.

Little or nothing of the Cox family’s short-lived and slightly wayward house, however, survives.

The Cox family armorial (to which they seem never to have established title!)

[M. Craven]

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Modern Collectibles

by Maxwell Craven

SHELL GUIDES

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eing the sort of universal hack that I am (when it comes to writing history), in the days before the internet I always needed a handy guide to various counties which would give me a little local colour combined with compressed highly reliable fact. I always found Arthur Mee too cumbersome and The King’s England series likewise. Instead at an early age (by liberating a couple of volumes from the shelves of a relative) I came to realise that the perfect combination was to be met with in Shell Guides.

The series began in June 1934 with Cornwall, which the publishers, the Architecture Press, selected John Betjeman to write. The sponsor was the oil company Shell; whose slogan then was ‘Shell: the Key to the Countryside’, in essence explains their willingness to underwrite the series. Although the 1934 Cornwall was pretty simple: spiral bound, 62 pages, and not a few errors and omissions, the format stabilised the following year with its revised edition as hard backed 7x9¼ inches with colourful dust-wrapper, glossy paper, an introduction, pace-by-place gazetteer and a lot of excellent black & white photographs.

The series was continued until 1984, by which time about half the country had been covered. The series was sponsored by the oil company Shell. The original guides were published on a county-by-county basis, under the editorial control of the poet John Betjeman and (later) his friend the artist John Piper. There were 13 pre-war titles,

Cornwall: cover of the 1964 revision, also by Betjeman. [M Cravan] the publisher changing fairly soon to B T Batsford and then in 1939 to Faber & Faber who continued until 1984. In 1939 all the previous twelve titles were re-issued and one new one in the same format: David Verey's Gloucestershire.

The next one planned was Shropshire to be co-written by Betjeman and Piper. However, the Second World War intervened. Postwar, every bit of Wales was covered in five different titles. But it was not until 1951 that the series re-started with Shropshire. Jack Beddington, Shell’s advertising manager, was long involved with the Shell Guides and his influence led to the employment of so many artists: John and Edward Piper, John and Paul Nash and so on.

From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, a series of general titles under the Shell Guide banner were also produced, covering most of the countries in northwest Europe.

Devon, 1935: first guide in hard back.

[M Cravan]

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Four of Henry Thorold five Shell Guides, all signed. [M Cravan]

Paperback version of the; last ‘true’ Shell Guide: Nottinghamshire (1984). [M Cravan] Above Dorset: an original spiral bound 1st edition guide, 1934 [Private collection]

Guides to subjects such as rivers, islands, viewpoints, archaeology, gardens, flowers, history, wildlife and museums were also published, but these rather lie outside the collectors’ ambit.

and off various hobbyhorses as he takes you, in the most gentle and civilised way, round his beloved Cornwall. As editor, his view was that the guides were all about

In 1987, Shell issued a final series of New Shell Guides, published by Michael Joseph and generally covering rather larger areas (e.g. Northern Scotland and the Islands) than in the earlier series.

Whilst the original Shell County Guides are now highly collectible, the later titles (published by Faber & Faber, Ebury Press or Michael Joseph) tend to be shunned by collectors and book dealers alike, as supply exceeds demand. Also, since 2012 the Heritage Shell Guide Trust has been set up to re-start the series, beginning with West Yorkshire by William Glossop in 2012, a complete revision (due to boundary changes of the 1974 West Riding volume. It is too early to say whether these will become collectible, but all those I have seen are in paperback, are unlikely to be much sought after.

‘Readers will want to know what a place looks like now. Is it ruined with poles and wires? Has an old bridge been destroyed and a concrete one put in its place?’”

The real joy of the original series, apart from the photographs, are the authors.

You can see John Betjeman clambering on

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Another regular author of the guides was the late Revd. Henry Thorold, whom Carole and I got to know well.

He, too was a friend of John Piper (who landscaped his garden at Marston Hall, Lincolnshire) and of Betjeman, although his circle of acquaintances was staggeringly wide. He too, writes like Betjeman, amusingly, perceptibly, heart on sleeve and, like Sir John, his intimate knowledge of the five counties he wrote up was astonishing.

Henry’s first effort was (with Jack Yates) Lincolnshire; on seeing which Betjeman wrote gleefully: ‘It is far the best of the Shell Guides so far and the text is really good too. We have got Pevsner on the run.’

He also wrote, Derbyshire, Durham, Staffordshire and Nottinghamshire (the last of the original series published), photographs mainly by Piper. The series was pulled by Shell in 1984 with Bedfordshire not quite ready for the press: it never appeared.

Although many were reprinted in paperback, the original spiral bound card or hardback ones are those that are collectible. Even more so if you were lucky enough the get the author to sign you copies; I have never been pushy like that, but on a visit to Marston I later discovered that he had signed the two I’d brought and given us three others I had not even got round to buying! Likewise, when I lived in London, a friend who knew Betjeman well got Cornwall (1964 revision) signed.

These signatures are the key to value, as some authors like Betjeman, Piper, Thorold, David Verey, Professor W G Hoskins, and so on were very well known in their own right. A Piper or Betjemansigned pre-war edition is going to soar past £300 and do almost as well if it is a later edition (condition being right). The

Below Flyleaf of 1978 Staffordshire signed

by Henry Thorold.

[M Cravan]

Left Devon, 1935: frontispiece and title page. [M Cravan]

Below Oxfordshire: cover of another early spiral bound edition. [Private collection]

Above Condition is important: torn dust wrapper of Jim Lees-Milne’s excellent Worcestershire (1964).

[M Cravan]

Right Ockbrook and Friar Gate Bridge: from 1972 revision of Derbyshire

Above Author’s collection, including some taller post-1987 versions, edited by Lord Norwich.

[M Cravan]

lesser, but still well-known, authors are probably going to command a premium of £30-40 over the value of an unsigned one. Largely speaking, signed copies are extremely rare.

Prices for the unsigned pre-war spiral or comb-bound card covered editions (which frequently fail to survive) are upwards of £50 today, but a really good one could go for over £300, but the hard bound copies can still be had for around £30in reasonable condition.

Pre-war Faber editions are scarce because war interrupted their re-issue, so they can go for £75-£200 depending on condition.

Post-war, Piper and Betjeman collectors tend to vie for copies, pushing the price of early ones up: Shropshire to £60-100, Oxfordshire (1953) £120 plus. Rutland with only 52 pages might make you pause before paying out £50 plus, but it is very scarce, despite its slimness.

Strangely enough, these slim but delightful guides rarely come up at auction. Here at Bamfords when we have seen them, they have been lotted together in a general sale, but I think that is beginning to change now. Were

some desirable ones to appear now, we would assign them to one of our very popular Library, or Gentleman’s sales, which would certainly do them justice.

Nevertheless, they do still appear in jumble sales, bring-and-buys, and the less elevated type of antique fair, so keep your eyes peeled: you can still find them, if a little tired, for under a fiver, but leave the post 1984 ones alone if you’re a collector

Caricature of Revd.

Henry Thorold, c. 1985 [Daily Telegraph]

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Reflecting on 25 years and more in business!

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The Montessori approach to care aims to enable individuals to live as independently as possible and have a place in their community to contribute and thrive. Its key principles focus on enhancing the home environment, improving the quality of life of residents and giving their lives purpose.

Residents can enjoy and engage in daily living in Buddleia House. Our community has an indoor garden area, a pub, library area, a pantry, sweet shop, creative art and music areas, and lots of other engaging facilities. A therapeutic garden has been designed to give residents the opportunity to pot plants in the green house, feed the chickens, have a game of bowling on the specially made bowling green, enjoy a drink in the beer garden or the tea house, and much more.

“We have started implementing the Montessori methods in our group and we’ve already been able to change the day to day quality of life by enabling and giving people purpose. For example, we’ve been able to support a gentleman with dementia to become independent in using the bathroom through unique design, signage and support which has given him back his dignity and control.

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Examples include hanging out washing, folding laundry, helping in the garden and laying the tables. Other residents who were thought to have lost the ability to read are now taking part in the book club with specially written books for people with dementia. This has given them a purpose in their daily life and also helps to reduce some of the challenges that dementia can cause.”

Buddleia House has just opened for enquiries and will be holding an open day for the public on Saturday 6th April at 2pm, which will give people an opportunity to find out more about both the home and this unique approach to care which is being introduced to the UK. For more information, please visit www.buddleia-house.co.uk

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ne of Capability Brown’s earliest works, Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire was looking at its best when Brian Spencer visited it during a recent autumn break.

later owners to expand the garden, making it an ideal retreat for politicians looking for somewhere to meet and plot with their confrères, and maybe meet up with their lady friends on the odd occasion.

The gardens of Grade 1 listed Stowe House are the idyllic setting for Stowe School. The public school sits at the top of rising ground overlooking grounds that are, as the master gardener Capability Brown probably said, now looking at their best, having matured over three centuries. Our visit coincided with the sturdy beeches being decked in colours ranging from varying shades of yellow to brightest orange; their fallen leaves made patterns on the still waters of ornamental ponds dug by the hands of eighteenth century navvies.

Throughout the years the different owners all seem to have been able to extend the work of their predecessors, bringing in the top architects and garden designers of their day.

Throughout the 1700s the house and its grounds were a hive of activity, starting with architects of their day, such as Charles Bridgeman and then Sir John Vanbrugh, designer of Blenheim Palace. He worked on Stowe for six years until his sudden death in 1726 and was followed by James Gibbs whose speciality was the English Baroque style – a feature that shows itself in both the house and the garden’s stone-work.

The original estate was built by Sir George Gifford (1498-1557) whose wealth was based on wool. Very early in the fortunes of Stowe, the place became a popular venue for visits of the great and the good. This interest prompted

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Most gardeners will agree that gardens take time to develop. In the case of Stowe, the time lapse was decades, almost running into centuries.

Most of the work on Stowe Gardens took place in the mid-1700s. It was during this time that the young Lancelot Brown who had moved to Buckinghamshire as a free-lance garden designer, came to the notice of Lord Cobham at Stowe. He became head gardener, working closely with James Gibbs the architect responsible for the house and William Kent who had already laid out features such as the Elysian Fields, Temple of Ancient Virtue and also the Temple of English Worthies.

It was while Brown was developing Stowe’s gardens that he developed the style which was to give him the nickname ‘Capability’. Continuing Kent’s work, he laid out the garden making it look as natural as possible, in what became known as the Serpentine, or English style. As can be seen at Stowe, the central features are interlinked winding, or ‘serpentine’ lakes joined by bridges and cascades; all this is surrounded by follies, encircling carriage drives and clumps of trees.

ABOVE: The Palladian Bridge, built in 1738 by James Gibbs

RIGHT: A Minerva statue of Frigg

All of his work has now grown to maturity, confirming Brown’s opinion of the garden’s ‘capability’.

It was during Capability Brown’s tenure at Stowe that his ideas and skills came to the notice of the fashionable elite of the country and so in 1751 he left Lord Cobham’s employment at Stowe, to spend the rest of his working life advising the owners of great estates of the ‘capabilities’ of their properties.

At the zenith of its popularity, Stowe became the ideal meeting place where politicians came to unwind and discuss strategies with their fellow MPs. Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger rented the estate at one time, making it an early version of Chequers the grace and favour residence of future prime ministers.

Like many grand houses and their estates, Stowe has passed its usefulness as a place where

the great and good of society could use their wealth. Due to escalating maintenance costs, Stowe had to be found other uses. The result was that the house became a public school and the gardens given over to the care of the National Trust. While the house and the school’s sports facilities are not open to the public, visitors can stroll round the gardens and parkland on any day of the year. Like visitors from earlier times, the entrance to the 750 acre estate and its 40 listed historic monuments and temples is past the imposing Corinthian Arch and the Oxford Gates; the latter incidentally are built of wrought iron salvaged from a World War One German battleship.

Long before Stowe gardens became a National Trust property, the then current owners realised that it was necessary to provide somewhere for visitors to stay, or at least rest and take some refreshment. The New Inn close by the entrance

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was built to provide this and it now serves as an entry and information point at the start of a tour round the gardens. Although no longer providing overnight accommodation it does offer excellent meals and light refreshments, all to the usual high standards of the National Trust. The New Inn also houses a useful information section where, along with a note detailing the birds currently seen around the grounds, as well as being the start of walks guided by experienced National Trust staff.

The short Bell Drive leads down to the start of the graded paths that meander over the gently sloping land on either side of the lakes and past monuments and temples. Children are well catered for with the choice of three walks, non-more than 1.3 miles in length. Even for adults, a walk around the garden need not be too exhausting; the following is just one of the strolls on offer and because we did it on our visit, we can say it was most enjoyable.

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ABOVE: Temple of Concord and Victory

BELOW: A monument to Captain Cook

Temple Of Ancient Virtue

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he National Trust with an eye to the future is skilled at exciting the interest of young children: each of the three children-oriented walks through Stowe Garden is based on a theme to interest children of all ages. The easiest, a one mile walk is called ‘The path of the goodies’ and wanders past statues of Greek heroes on its way through the Elysian Fields to the Temple of British Worthies. The second, only a quarter of a mile longer, and is called the ‘Naughty Path’. Along it children can imagine fairy tales linked with myths and magic. The third children’s path is somewhat harder as it involves a hill climb. Called the ‘Heroic Path’, this 1.3 miles walk searches out Saxon kings and queens, along with commemorations of various long-gone battles.

We decided to go our own way and from the New Inn walked down the tree-lined drive to the Bell Gate and its view of the park across Octagon Lake. A right turn

ABOVE: The Temple of British Worthies

led us topically enough to the Temple of Friendship, the perfect start of our walk.

Swinging round to the right took us by way of a short detour to the Chinese House and then on to cross the top end of Octagon Lake and the Palladian Bridge.

Alcoves along the bridge framed the view down the lake and its islands topped by monuments to past dignitaries.

The path begins to climb beyond the bridge, past the Gothic Temple and a glade encircling famous Saxon Deities, then on to the top of the climb. Lord Cobham stands on top of a tall pillar at this point, marking the start of his favourite walk. It passes the head of Grecian Valley with its view of the classical Greek-based Temple of Concord and Victory. Another short diversion along the way takes in the Dancing Faun, then onwards to the temple. There are several paths downhill from this point, we chose, almost at random, one that took us by way

of a natural-looking grotto, past Captain Cook’s monument and a line of busts called The Temple of British Worthies.

Reaching the north shore of Octagon Lake, there are two possibilities; left back to the Palladian Bridge, or right as we did downstream to a cascade created artificially from stones apparently taken from mock ruins. Eleven Acre Lake stretches from the cascade, past a hermitage to the Temple of Venus. Bearing right at the lake end we climbed up to admire Queen Caroline’s statue, the unhappy wife of King George IV before making our way back down to the Octagon Lake and its attractive cascade.

We could have extended our walk by climbing the wooded hill, past the huge Rotunda, then onwards to the front of Stowe House. However, as time was pressing we continued left around the lake, back to Bell Gate Drive and a pleasant lunch at the New Inn.

ABOVE: One of the many stunning woodlands walks

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ne of my favourite months of the year, you start to see a lot more people gardening plus this month sees the start of the “grow your own” season, again with many new varieties of vegetables.

With the allotment gone now I’m going to start doing a lot more vegetable growing in containers – I had great success with carrots in deep pots so I’m going to experiment a lot more with all sorts of containers and pots. I sprayed less insecticide last year because of the companion planting I used (blackpepper mint and basil) to keep away greenfly and whitefly. Also another tip, is to use white alyssum (the summer bedding plant) in containers near plants or vegetables. Thrips are attracted to the alyssum and not the plants or vegetables. Once the alyssum is swamped with thrips simply dispose of them in the green waste wheelie bin.

Look out for the N.G.S open garden booklets

The reason I love the open garden scheme is because these are “real” gardens that easily relate to our own gardens.

So pick up a yellow booklet for dates and locations from any good plant nursery or garden centre and also look out for the yellow posters – the open gardens are a great source of inspiration.

Allotment or Vegetable Patch: • Still a good time to sow green manure • Buy vegetable plug plants (approx Easter weekend onwards) • Fertilise spring cabbage with a high nitrogen feed • Plant new asparagus “crowns” • Potatoes, shallots and onion sets should still be available to buy • Feed fruit trees and bushes with sulphate of potash • Crops to sow directly outside or under cloches are peas, mange tout, mixed salad leaves, radish, cauliflower, turnip, lettuce, carrots, beetroot, cabbage, Brussels, broad beans, leeks, rocket, Swiss chard and spinach.

• Also sow in your vegetable plot Tagetes and poached egg plant to attract beneficial insects.

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Look out for new varieties of trees and shrubs this month but here are some that are old favourites.

Japanese Maples: My most favourite of all shrubs these stunning shrubs/trees are ideal in containers and make a great feature plant in the garden. The choice of variety is vast, with red or green, finely cut or palmate leaf. Pick a variety like Acer palmatum Sango Kaku and you also get colourful stems in winter. Acers like a moist but well drained, neutral to acid soil in a non exposed windy position. Despite what you read in some books, Acers with sensible care are easy to grow.

My personal favourites are: Acer palmatum Sango Kaku (coloured stems) including a new variety called acer palmatum Bi-Hoo – look out for this great variety, acer palmatum Bloodgood (the best upright red leaf maple) acer palmatum dissectum Greenlace (very finely cut, green leaf maple), acer palmatum dissectum Garnet (very finely cut, red leaf maple) and Acer shirasawanum Aureum (bright yellow leafed maple).

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“It’s always good to come back and connect with your roots”

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henever anyone lists the finest actors who originated from Derbyshire, names such as the late Alan Bates and John Hurt usually crop up, closely followed by current heavyweights such as Robert Lindsay and Jack O’Connell. It’s rare that Maxwell Caulfield is included.

Born in Duffield, Maxwell can genuinely be described as a Hollywood superstar. He was playboy Miles Colby in the blockbuster series Dynasty and the spin-off The Colbys, he’s made more than 40 films, played Mark Wylde in more than 150 episodes of Emmerdale and has appeared as lawyer Billy Flynn in the long-running musical Chicago on Broadway and in London’s West End. He’s back in this country in The Lady Vanishes, a high-profile production based on the film directed

by Alfred Hitchcock which is touring the country for most of this year.

The bonus for Maxwell is that his 77-year-old wife Juliet Mills, sister of Hayley, is also in the cast. She’s 18 years older than Maxwell. They met on stage and fell in love. Critics said the marriage would never last. Last year they celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary.

In a wide-ranging conversation Maxwell told me about his Derbyshire roots, why he loves coming back to this country so much and how he’s hoping to perform with his “English rose” Juliet in a play that features only the two of them.

The play is set on a train hurtling through the Austrian Alps in the late 1930s on the eve of the Second World War.

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There’s no sign of pretentiousness with Maxwell. He sounded genuinely pleased that Country Images wanted to give publicity to The Lady Vanishes and he gladly gave up his time to be interviewed.

And throughout our chat his love for Juliet shone through. He signed off with “the home-grown lad is proud to be coming back to the county and showing off with his beautiful bride.”

In The Lady Vanishes Maxwell plays Austrian brain surgeon Dr Hartz. The play is set on a train hurtling through the Austrian Alps in the late 1930s on the eve of the Second World War.

“The show is a bit of a runaway train in itself,” says Maxwell. “It’s got laughter, there are a couple of demented cricket fanatics who seem oblivious to everything that’s going on around them – they’re so hell bent on getting to the Test match at Old Trafford.

“And there’s a burgeoning romance at the heart of it, the young heroine who’s haunted by the disappearance of the lady who befriended her at the train station in Austria before it set off.”

The play is being produced by Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre Company and, according to Maxwell, Kenwright has spent “good money” on the set and costumes.

“It’s a first-class production and we’ve got a very strong company. We think we’re delivering a good couple of hours’ entertainment, hopefully for a fair price. The price of a cinema ticket these days is the same price as a theatre ticket, so why not come and see something live and something that you’ll really remember.

“I’ve always maintained that live performances stay with you, more so than a movie that’s knocked you out.

All kinds of stuff happens in live performances.

Guns jam, train compartment doors don’t close when they have to, actors playing multiple parts come on wearing the wrong costume. It keeps us all on our toes. Based on the curtain calls we’ve been taking, everybody seems to have enjoyed themselves which is the name of the game.”

Strangely Maxwell and Juliet don’t have any scenes together in The Lady Vanishes. “It’s probably a relief for her not to have to deal with me for a couple of hours! I just love being on the boards with her. Because we’re in each other’s pockets all the time when we’re on tour, it’s a very intimate experience. If you’re not driving in the car you’re moving into the digs together and then into the theatre.”

Maxwell Newby was born on 23 November 1959.

His parents divorced when Maxwell was very young. His father lived in Chesterfield for a long time and died there, so Maxwell is delighted that The Lady Vanishes will be visiting the

Pomegranate Theatre in the town.

Although his mother took Maxwell and his brother Marcus to live in London, they would spend a lot of time in the summer holidays with their grandparents, Tom and Mavis, in Littleover.

Maxwell can’t say much at this stage about the play he and Juliet want to do together but he feels the time is right for him to do it.

“Hopefully you get better as an actor and funnily enough you realise you don’t have to work so hard.

Maxwell’s aunt Margaret and uncle David live in Littleover and they’ll be meeting up when he and Juliet return to the county.

“When the profession’s good it’s great and when it’s giving you the cold shoulder it’s tough. But this is a purple patch we’re in now – we’re enjoying it.”

“The connections to Derbyshire are very strong even though I didn’t spend a lot of time there in my youth.

Maxwell is looking forward to playing the Pomegranate, especially as it’s a theatre he’s never been to.

“It’s always good to come back and connect with your roots. Juliet and I both elected to live in America but it does come at a bit of a price. You get the sunshine although there’s a bit of a disconnect living all the way over on the west coast.”

“Sometimes touring in England, particularly in the dead of winter, may be taking it a bit far – lugging suitcases up five flights of stairs or on your day off driving 300 miles to the next date. You look for the light at the end of the tunnel but we’ll be full of beans for the Chesterfield date, that much I know – still full of enthusiasm and esprit de corps.”

Maxwell is grateful that he can return to Britain on a regular basis. The first three UK tours he did all stopped off at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham: in 2010 he and Juliet were in the Alan Ayckbourn play Bedroom Farce, then musicals Singin’ In The Rain and Guys And Dolls.

Maxwell even did a few dates at the Theatre Royal in The Rocky Horror Show, playing the Narrator. “I remember playing to an absolutely packed house.

I’ve never heard such a torrent of abuse. I didn’t realise that part of the show has the audience barracking the narrator throughout. It was quite a shock. It was just like I’d missed a sitter at Pride Park!”

That was one of the few occasions he wasn’t appearing alongside Juliet. They met in 1980, a couple of years after Maxwell had moved to the States, when they both performed in the play The Elephant Man.

After being on stage in Hollywood and enjoying life at the top, why did Maxwell sign up for the tour of The Lady Vanishes?

“Frankly, it’s a living. I was reading in a newspaper about how automation is going to erode the workforce by 20 to 50% in the years to come. So what the hell are people going to be doing? I don’t know.

“Thank God I’m in a profession that, as long as British theatre remains as healthy as it appears to be, I can stay gainfully employed.”

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The boy from Duffield who made it big in Hollywood should have no worries about that.

“That was a wonderful experience and we fell hook, line and sinker for one another,” says Maxwell. “We would like to work together more but it’s rare that you get cast in the same film or TV project.

“They say that show business couples don’t work very well together, the sparks don’t fly because they know each other too well. In the plays that we’ve done together people have said they really enjoy watching us and there’s real chemistry. And I certainly love acting opposite her.”

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IMAGES ANNIVERSARY WALK: Pentrich to Crich 10 miles (16km): Moderate trails, field-paths and country lanes. With some muddy sections.

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CAR PARKING: Parking on the main road in Pentrich .

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hen Country Images magazine was first launched in 1994 we were pleased to be able to include walks from ‘not so’ Old Perce. Over the following months he traversed the Amber valley and provided delightful walks that, as all walks should, start and finish at the local pub. With many village pubs closing that has become harder to do but in true style for 2019 ‘a little older and wider!’ Old Perce is back. Yes, he’s still around and walks incessantly around Amber Valley which is great news for us. So this month he shares with us one of his favourite walks.

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1. From The Dog Inn Pentrich go up the main road towards Swanwick, then turn left onto Riley Lane, signposted Fritchley and Crich.

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3. Go past Boden House and Boden Farm and straight up the steep lane that veers to the right. A short walk up the lane gives fine views of Wingfield Manor to the right.

4. Go to the top of the lane and follow the beaten path through the woods. At the stile follow the directions on the yellow arrow left as it marks a pathway through the second part of the woodland.

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the second stile. Turn right and walk to the end of the lane 6. At the end of the lane turn right. Fifty yards before the hat factory follow the footpath sign to the right and through the woodland for just a short distance and then cross the stile on the left marked by a yellow arrow. Keep to the right hand side of the field by the hedgerow via a stile and metal gate. Follow the pathway and keep the woodland to your left.

7. Keeping the woodland to your immediate left cross over the gated stile and continue a short distance on and cross another stile. Turn left and immediately right over a metal gated stile and continue onto the top of the lane and into Crich Market Place.

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the yellow arrow on the post. Follow the metal sign marked Chadwick Nick and continue on this pathway for approximately half a mile. The views to the right show spectacular views of the Derwent Valley. The pathway via a set of stone steps leads to the tarmac road of Chadwick Nick where we turn right.

9. After 200 yards turn left at the signpost with the orange sticker on it. At the end of the pathway turn left.

10. Continue on the pathway ahead, don’t be tempted to veer off to the right or left.

This pathway slowly meanders through some beautiful woodland for about a mile and leads to a stone bridge that crosses the Cromford Canal.

Go over the bridge and cross back under it as though heading for Ambergate 11. Follow the towpath all the way to the end and cross a white painted bridge. Follow the path ahead keeping close to a wired fence all the way until it goes through a canopy of trees then follow the path inclined upwards.

12. After 3/4 of a mile or so the path will lead to a stone stile with barred wooden gate . Cross onto the lane which leads to Chadwick Nick and turn left up the lane.

13. Follow the lane to the top up the stone steps on the right and turn right on the pathway which leads us back into Crich.

(At this point I recommend a pint or two in the Black Swan or coffee and cake in The Loaf and then wander our way back).

14. Turn left out of the Black Swan or straight out of The Loaf and walk down Dimple Lane and follow it to the end where it forks left and then turn left.

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18. A gated stile needs to be crossed ahead at the right hand side on the top of the field. Continue on by the side of the hedge and cross the next gated stile. At the very end of the hedgerow turn right and follow the footpath veering left through cemetary yard and back to the Dog Inn.

16. Follow the lane through the farmyard and left down the hill. At this point the pathway

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17. At the end of the path, cross a small bridge and turn right onto a busy road. A few yards ahead on the left is a signpost and a path to Pentrich which we take.

15. After half a mile or so ahead cross the stile on the right, marked Buckland Hollow and cross the field through the gate to the stone wall on the left. Cross here and turn right.

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk APRIL 1 UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro 1 Croft and Pearce: Double Take 2-6 Rock of Ages 5 WillNE & Stephen Tries 6 Theatre Royal Heritage Open Day 6 Classical Music The Hallé - April 2019 8 Sing-a-long-a The Greatest Showman 9-13 Doctor Dolittle 9-13 Turn of the Screw 9 Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Masters 10 Puppet Workshop 10 An Evening with Alfie Boe: As Time Goes By 11 Michael starring Ben 12 Into the Groove 13 14 Hello Again - The Story of Neil Diamond 15-20 Rough Crossing 15 National Youth Boys’ Choir of Great Britain 16 Spark Sensory Baby Sessions 17 Family Drumming Workshops 17 Back to the Future In Concert 18 The Solid Silver 60s Show 20 Michael Ball 23 to May 4 Motown The Musical 26 Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years 26 Apr 2019 27 Classical Music. Philharmonia Orchestra 28 George 29 The Third Stage - A Write Royal Performance 29 Apr 2019 MAY 1 The Vamps: Four Corners Tour 3 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 3 After Hours: Richard Uttley and Kate Whitley 3 The Third Stage - John Hegley: Peace, Love & Potatoes 5 The Kingdom Choir 6 Marc Almond 7-11 Mack and Mabel 7-8 Strictly Come Dancing The Professionals 12 Danny Baker: Good Time Charlie’s Back Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre.

01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org MARCH 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 7 The Dream of Gerontius 9 Waymaking - An Evening of Women’s 9 Delving for Copper Lead and Coal over the Devonshire Dome 11 The Carpenters Story

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13 The Solid Silver 60s Show 13 A Life with Elephants 14 Stewart Francis 15 Milkshake! Live - Milkshake Monkey’s Musical 16-17 Claire Dobinson School of Dancing Fascinating Rhythm 17 Swimming in Opium 18 The Take That Experience 19 Let’s Hang On 20 Tom Paxton & The DonJuans 21 The Drifters 26 Russell Kane 28 That’ll Be The Day 30 The Royal Opera Live Faust MAY 2 Remembering The Movies 3 Puss in Boots 3 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - May 4 Wet Wet Wet 5 Julian Clary Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk APRIL 6 Alfie Moore - In his latest stand-up tour show former Detective Sergeant Alfie Moore, and star of BBC Radio 4 comedy ‘It’s A Fair Cop’Sun 7 Derby County Community Trust Derby 10k 10-13 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas 12 Sergei Podobedov 13 Brass For A Cause 13 The Joys of Spring 16 The Selfish Giant 17-20 Dick Whittington 17 Sinfonia Viva - Searching for Tchaikovsky 20 Malcolm Stent + Mad Jocks & Englishmen 27 Wendy Kirkland 28 Cycle Derby Sportive Spring Classic MAY 1-2 Two 2 3 Cara Dillon 4 The Bump to Five Derby Show 4 Bedazzled by Broadway 4 Paul Kerensa 5 Resolution Run 5 Sarah McQuaid Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk APRIL 5-20 The Jungle Book - Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s magical stories, with brand-new original songs, The Jungle Book promises to be the perfect adventure for all the family this Easter.

12 Mission Abort 12 An Indian Abroad - Pariah Khan’s debut one man show takes the trope of white adventurers exploring ‘foreign’ lands and spins this concept on its head, asking that all important question: what if a student from India took a gap year to Britain?

18-19 Derby Youth Theatre Double Bill: Second Person Narrative & Skellig

23-27 The Remains of the Day 25 intotheclouds - intotheclouds is a playful, sensory and highly visual experience for very young children and babies aged 6-18 months developed in partnership with the NHS’s Small Steps Big Changes and over 50 babies and their families across Nottingham.

Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk 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!

12 Mo Amer & Guz Khan 15-18 Family Fest 2019 - Family Friendly: Join us for a fun-filled week of family activities here at Nottingham Playhouse. We have something for all ages and abilities, and will be running...

16 The Boy and The Mermaid - A fishy tale of musical merfolk, menacing monsters and the town at the edge of the sea.

17 The Teeny Tiny Orchestra - Prepare to get noisy! A room full of instruments.17 David Baddiel’s ANiMALCOLM the Musical Easter Family Fest: Diving Dolphins Movement Session 18 The Horne Section 2019 That’s How I Like My Tour 23 Memory of Water Members’ Curtain-Raiser 23 The Long Walk Back - The Long Walk Back tells the epic story of an international sporting star’s catastrophic fall from grace.

25-27 NT Connections MAY 3-18 The Memory of Water - The Memory of Water is a hilarious and heart-breaking drama about what we fear most – losing someone both in life and death.

Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre APRIL 2-3 In The Heights - Expressions Performing ArtsMusical Theatre 4 Crooners 7 Dare To Be Different Tozer Studios Dance 8-9 Two 10 Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story 11 Someone Like You (The Adele Songbook) 11 Josie Duncan and Pablo Lafuente (Studio) 12 Some Guys Have All The Luck 13 Peter Pan - Easter Panto 14 An Audience with Cannon and Ball 24-25 Poppy’s War 28 Black Dyke Band MAY 7 Jason Donovan & His Amazing Midlife Crisis

Michael Ball

Royal Centre Notttingham, Saturday 20th April Multi-platinum recording artist and national treasure Michael Ball is now on tour supporting his forthcoming studio album ‘Coming Home To You’ set for release in 2019.

Having received critical acclaim for his performances in the West End and on Broadway in shows including Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera and the smash hit musical Hairspray, the radio and TV host has since sold millions of albums and toured multiple continents across the world.

The Classic BRIT Award winner’s album Together with Alfie Boe was Christmas Number 1 in 2016 and their second album Together Again in 2017 went straight to number one, boasting combined sales of more than 1 million copies. Now Michael Ball is set to embark on his next live solo project with a 2019 U.K. tour which promises an evening of entertainment.

Puss in Boots

Buxton Opera House, Friday May 2nd 2019 Puss in Boots is no ordinary cat. Clever and charming, he takes life in his stride and befriends everyone he meets. The only thing is, he always seems to bring his master, Jack, bad luck. Join Puss and Jack on their adventure as they meet a flurry of lovable characters, and even come face to face with royalty!

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The Froe in Concert

Saturday 13th April 2019 7:30 pm at Crich Glebe Field Centre DE4 5EU A magical evening of beautifully delicate string arrangements of both traditional and original folk music from this Conservatoire trained, Birmingham based string quartet. With sweet vocals soaring over shimmering strings, this impressively good group weaves together folk roots and classical influences to realise music that is as imaginative as it is beautiful.

Drawing together musicians from Ashley Hutching’s Rainbow Chasers and The Old Dance School to spine-tingling effect, and with a diverse set of old songs and originals, this is an intimate and mesmerising evening of folk music.

Helen Lancaster and Ruth Angell join friends Emma Capp and Charlie Heys to create a unique blend of intricate sounds from fiddles, viola, cello, guitar, harmonium and vocals, playing original self-penned music with traditional and classical influences. Helen (The Fair Rain) and Emma (Emma Capp) grew up together in Hampshire and moving to Birmingham to study music, met Charlie (McNeill & Heys, The Fair Rain) and Ruth (Ruth Angell, Peacock Angell Band, The Rainbow Chasers) at the Birmingham Conservatoire.

Ruth Angell’s sweet vocals soar over weaving melodies and rich textures, often contrasted with sparse harmonies and magically inventive soundscapes. Their music has captivated audiences from folk clubs to festivals. Suitable for those aged 7 and over.

Swingin’ and Singin’ in the Jungle with Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book at the Derby Theatre April 5-20

Inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s magical stories, with brand-new original songs, The Jungle Book promises to be the perfect adventure for all the family this Easter. Expect stunning sets and costumes, catchy music from Ivan Stott and plenty of magic in our spectacular new production of The Jungle Book.

Award-winning writer Neil Duffield’s new adaptation is inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s magical stories, and is brought to life with brand new songs. Whilst growing up in the jungle and facing battles with the ruthless Shere Khan, Mowgli learns what it truly means to belong, thanks to friends Baloo and Bagheera.

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk 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. FREE entry, refreshments will be served. www.southwingfieldlocalhistorygroup.org Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

The next walk is on 7th April and 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 FB Pocket Orchestra Friday 12th April 2018 7.30 pm West Hallam Village Hall The FB Pocket Orchestra A Live and Local show. A richly enjoyable night of hot jazz, blues, ragtime and popular dances that hint at jazz age 1920s and swing era 1930s Tickets £10.50 Box Office: 0115 930 334 Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 19 April ‘Derby CAMRA WW1 Pubs Project Part 2’, by Marie Gibson. Meetings start at 7pm in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS. Charge of £1.50. Contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 https://darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress. com/ Derby Wine Circle Friday 7th April – “Dry Stone Walling” – Guest Speaker – Andrew Brown-Jackson. The Evergreen Club, Allestree – 7.30pm for 7.45pm.

Contact Julie@Thebelks.plus.com 01159 328217 Gilllian.wall@Ntlworld.com 01332 551447 Derby Chamber Music Society Friday 26th April at 7.30pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB A concert by the Marmen String Quartet Haydn: String Quartet in C, Op.74 No.1 Glass: String Quartet No.3 Beethoven: String Quartet in A minor, Op.132 Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) 01332 830585 or visit www.derbychambermusic.org Derby RSPB 7th April free Birdwatching Walk at Attenborough Nature Reserve, Nottingham. Meet in the Barton Lane car park by the visitor centre at 9.30am.

There should be plenty of wildfowl plus summer migrants arriving. Toilets and cafe on site, the walk will finish at approximately 12.30pm. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Also 10th April at 7.30pm. Chris Ward with a talk “Wildlife Down Under”, the wildlife of Eastern

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Australia. We meet in the Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.00, for nonmembers £2.50 and juniors £1.00. RSPB Derby www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Music at Duffield presents A4 Brass Quartet. 13 April 2019 at 7.30. St. Alkmund’s Church, Church Drive (off Makeney Road), Duffield DE56 4BA Bates Toccata 3 Waespi South Uist Variations Grainger arr. Bates Molly on the Shore Sato arr. Bates Tsunangari Goedicke arr. Bates Concert Etude Scottish Trad. arr. Bates Banks and Braes Mendelssohn arr. Robertson Saltarello arr. Bates “Alone at the Opera” including: Pachelbel’s Canon; Locus Iste; Largo Al Factotum; Flower Duet; Faust (finale) A4 Brass Quartet are one of the UK’s leading young chamber ensembles. Based at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Adult £15, Concession £14, Student £7. Individual tickets at the door or from Caroline Morgan 01332 843191 www.musicatduffield.com Spondon Historical Society Spondon Village Hall, Sitwell Street, Spondon DE21 7ET April 8th at 7.30pm for the Annual General Meeting. Followed with a talk entitled ‘Wonderful Things’ - A History of Winter’s Photographers’ by Jane Middleton-Smith. All are welcome. Visitors £4.00, Members £2.50.

Little Chester Local History Group April 18th at 7.30 p.m. in Chester Green Community Centre, Old Chester Road, Derby, James Major talks through, ‘The Faulds Explosion’, the military dump near Tutbury which exploded with dire consequences and is still partially visible to-day. Non-members £2. 01332 559615.

Little Chester Heritage Centre, St. Paul’s Church, Mansfield Road, Derby. Reopens on the 1st Sunday of the month April-October 2-4 p.m. In addition to the on-going exhibition of Roman History, there will be a special display, re-telling the story of War Memorials, including that at St. Paul’s. Free admission, refreshments available.

Group visits by arrangement. Tel. 01332 363354.

Dalesmen Student Competition A competition for young Derbyshire musicians ton Saturday 27th April, at the Strutts Centre in Belper. The competition is for students in years 12 and 13 who have achieved grade 7 or above in their music examinations. Members of the public are welcome to come and enjoy the performances by Derbyshire’s talented musicians.

Contact dmvcstudentaward@gmail.com for more information Dethick, Lea & Holloway Horticultural Society Annual Spring Plant Sale Saturday 11h May 2019 at the Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall,

Yew Tree Hill, Holloway, near Matlock, DE4 5BD. A good selection of plants for sale, bedding, hardy perennials, tender perennials, salad, herb and vegetable plants. Plants suitable for wildlife as well as some plants from specialised growers.

Entry is free – doors open at 10am until 12noon.

Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 16th April 2019. AGM and Social Event.

Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm. The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members free.

Non- members £7. Telephone 07968 237457 The Heage Committee of Action Medical Research .

Annual Garden Party Sunday 19 May 2019.

57 Ripley Road, Heage. Gates open 12.30 (£1 adults, 50p children). Opening ceremony 1pm with Associate Professor Nick Gee a longstanding supporter of Action Medical Research.

Activities include a plant stall, Cream Teas, BBQ, Dance Display, AIM Excelsum Band, Toy stall, Raffle, Tombolas, Penalty Shoot Out, Skittles and many more stalls. Contact Liz on 01773 824442 or 07443464619 or Jean on 01773 744135.

Ashfield Harmony, Kirkby-in-Ashfield’s local singing group, will be swinging into Spring for their next concert at The Ashwood Centre in May. The Choir have invited Ravenshead Swing Band to join them for the evening and together they will be singing and playing many popular big band numbers, some show-stopping melodies from favourite musicals and from hit-making stars such as Frank Sinatra and Michael Buble.

The Ashwood Centre will have a more informal, relaxed café theme for the evening, with our audience invited to sit at individual tables for 6 or 8.

‘Swing Into Spring’ with Ashfield Harmony and Ravenshead Swing Band will be at The Ashwood Centre, Portland Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Notts on Saturday 11th May 2019 starting at 7.00 pm.

Tickets £8 each and can be obtained from any choir member or reserved by calling Concert Secretary, Carolynne, on 01773775176.

Derby French Circle (Cercle Francais de Derby) www. derbyfrenchcircle.org.uk St Edmund’s Church Hall, Kings Croft, Allestree, Derby DE22 2FN. Talks, quizzes, social and cultural events. Join us for conversation and games in French. All levels of French spoken. Friday 12 April from 7.15pm: An Interactive Social Event directed by Thierry Viennois.

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.

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with Malcolm Stent, plus Mad Jocks And Englishmen. Saturday 20 April 8pm. Side splitting songs and stories, with great British Songs and Humour. Don’t come if you don’t like laughing! Old Bell Hotel, Sadler Gate, Derby Tickets £17.50, Derby LIVE Box Office 01332 255800, www.derbylive.co.uk, Ticket Hotline 01773 853428

Win Tickets for Sunday 5 May 6pm The Unfinished Violin. Sam Sweeney, veteran of the mighty Bellowhead, Artistic Director of the National Folk Youth Ensemble, and BBC Folk Musician of the Year, brings his new show to Derby based on the true story of Richard Howard’s unfinished violin discovered 100 years after his death. Sam came across the violin that was made but not assembled by Richard S Howard of Leeds 1915. In time Sam set about digging into its history, uncovering the fateful tale of Richard Howard, a Music Hall performer and violin maker called up in 1916, who lost his life at the Battle of Messines in 1917. Top musicians from the traditional music scene - Rob Harbron concertina, Jack Rutter guitar, Patsy Reid piano, and Ben Nicholls bass, join Sam on stage.

Sensitive, fragile, emotive and extremely beautiful… Colin Irwin. Derby Theatre - Intu Car Park DE1 2PL Tickets £22.50, concessions £20.50 Box Office 01332 593939, www.derbytheatre.co.uk, or Ticket Hotline 01773 853428

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2019 Ashover Show

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he 88th Ashover Show will be held on Wednesday 14 August 2019. The Show is very proud of its reputation as one of the finest traditional agricultural shows in the country which regularly welcomes over 14,000 visitors. This year the Centre Ring will have entertainment throughout the day starting with the arrival of the President, Mr Fred Hall at 9.30am followed by the Barlow Red Barrows, The Guide Dogs for the Blind display, The Sheep Grand National, the very popular parade of hounds by the Four Shires Blood Hounds and The Barlow Hunt, the heavy horse classes, private driving, The Grand Parade, fancy dress and ending the day with the tug of war. The BSJA show jumping will take place in the Light Horse Rings with a viewing both from the Members enclosure and the new marquee gallery at the top of the ring.

With livestock rings showing the finest cattle and sheep in the area, visitors can watch the excitement as the judges make their decisions.

All our sections now have classes for the young people, something vital for the continuation of the Show. The Livestock Grand Parade will take place in the Centre Ring. Champion shire horses, cattle and sheep will parade around the ring with their colourful sashes and rosettes.

The light horse section will run throughout the day. Championships from the local Ashover Riding Club will be held for horses

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and riders who have qualified at the club shows through the season, full details are on the Facebook page. There will also be the junior handler classes which have proved very popular since their introduction. Of course the highlight will be the fancy dress class which will be judged by the President, in the Centre Ring. There will be both affiliated BSJA and unaffiliated show jumping along with the traditional local classes so there really is something for everyone.

The poultry section continues to grow and will host the ever expanding number of classes in what is an extremely colourful display. Next door will be the very popular dog show with classes for both pedigree and non-pedigree dogs. The crowds will be entertained by the Animal Magic Dog Display Team who will be performing in the ring throughout the morning in the lead up to the start of the dog show.

The Vintage Tractor ring will showcase around 150 of the very best local vehicles along with a vintage car display, which is kindly put on by a local vintage owners club to create what is always a popular and stunning display. Visitors will be able to relax in the ‘Village Green’ area whilst listening to the Ashover Brass Band.

The children can watch the traditional Punch and Judy Show or pay a visit to the popular rides and slides area.

The Horticulture Marquee is a must for visitors with its absolutely stunning displays

which just get better every year, as does the appetising Ashover Marquee which will have over 30 of the very best of local food producers from around the area. A visit to the Craft Marquee was also not to be missed with over 50 exhibitors displaying the fantastic range of local talent on show.

Out on the showground there will be approximately 200 trade stands, selling everything from farm machinery to bird tables, there really is something to interest everyone!

When visitors have looked around everything the Show has to offer, they can simply sit and relax at one of the many and varied food outlets around the ground. Car parks surround the show ground and parking is free. This year traffic will be managed by a specialist team employed to ensure that cars can quickly and easily access the car parks and queuing is kept to a minimum. For up to date information and all of the contact details plus class schedules, please visit www.ashovershow.co.uk. Advance tickets and programmes are available to purchase on line at a reduced price to those on the day and we very much look forward to seeing you.

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A TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL SHOW FOR ALL OF THE FAMILY TO ENJOY The Rectory Fields, Ashover, ChesterямБeld, Derbyshire S45 0BA 9.00AM UNTIL DUSK Telephone 01623 811545 ashovershow@aol.com www.ashovershow.co.uk ASHOVER AGRICULTURAL & HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY LTD WORKING IN AID OF THE ASHOVER SHOW

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ur independent status is what sets us apart at Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre. SLVC is pretty much the only practice in the local area that hasn’t been bought out by a large corporate group?

Every veterinarian strives to do the very best for every single one of their patients – our love of animals is what drives us to become vets in the first place. So what do Saint Leonard’s, as a small, independent veterinary practice, do well? For starters, we are a small team which means that we get to know you and your fur-babies very well. This lets us build up a relationship with you quickly and your pet soon comes to trust us. In emergency situations this trust can come in very handy as your pet doesn’t panic and we can treat them quicker.

At Saint Leonard veterinary Centre we try our hardest to ensure that you see the same vet each time you come to see us; We also offer half price home visits on Thursdays, something that I really do think only independent practices like ours offer.

These visits are for routine care such as vaccinations, check-ups, anal glands, claw clipping, micro-chipping, collection and delivery for routine operations, and worm and flea treatments. We find our less mobile, non-driving, or sensitive pet owners really do appreciate SLVC giving them this option.

Another service that we are able to offer is Home Euthanasia. Granted, it isn’t something that any of us want to think about until we have to, but when the time comes it’s nice to have the choice of where to say goodbye to your beloved furry family member.

Emergency situations are obviously different though.

We offer surgery and have two surgical suites complete with anaesthetic monitoring and patient-warming facilities, and we also have a separate dental suite too.

Our in-house laboratory can give us comprehensive blood results in minutes, cutting down stress for owners, and letting us treat our furry clients quickly and accurately.

Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre also has a fantastic diagnostic suite where we can take digital X-rays, perform high-powered Ultrasound scans, ECG’s, and monitor blood pressure.

Best of all though, being small means that we can offer you a truly exceptional level of care for you and your pet. It also means that we can make time for extra cuddles and smooches with them – one of the best bits of our job!

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he Richard Whittlestone Wildlife Gallery was first established here in the Peak District on the Chatsworth estate, in June 2005. Originally sited above Penrose Interiors, it soon expanded to newly converted farm buildings just a few metres away, becoming the gallery it is today.

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Richard, professional for 31 years, sold his paintings originally at the now defunct Stud Farm Gallery in the mid-1980’s. This lost gallery is now the restaurant at the Chatsworth Farm Shop. His sales were quite prolific, he often delivered new paintings in the morning, returning home to Yorkshire in the afternoon to be greeted by a telephone call saying all the new work was already sold!

After running his own gallery in North Yorkshire for a number of years and exhibiting his work nationally, Richard returned to Derbyshire with his wife in 1998, later opening the gallery in Pilsley, just a stone’s throw from the farm shop where his professional carreer had begun.

“Chatsworth has always been a draw for me”, says Richard, “It made sense to have a gallery here, it’s a spiritual home. I draw much inspiration from the birds and animals to be found right on my doorstep”. Although his clients now come from all parts of the world, some customers are those who bought his paintings in his early years, 30 years ago.

“All my paintings have a tiny fly somewhere in the composition but I regularly have clients who bought paintings from me before 1990, who want one put in, as their painting pre-dates this!”.

Richard’s favoured medium is acrylic - usually on panel, his style realistic, almost 3 dimensional. “My aim is always to make the viewer trust the subject is believable”, Richard explains, “ I have loved and studied nature all my life, especially ornithology and growing up on a farm meant I could have an aviary and breed pheasants, quail and varieties of finches, studying them at close quarters. I would spend hours sitting among my birds, sketching and observing their movement and relation to each other. Their connection to their environment and the ebb and flow of their daily lives.

I remember all this when I paint now, it helps create the reality”.

The gallery houses Richard’s originals, limited edition prints and greetings cards, together with the wonderfully tactile bronze sculptures of Eddie Hallam. Open Tuesday to Saturday and over Easter, the gallery is well worth a visit this Spring. www.richardwhittlestone.co.uk 01246 582720.

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Journeying north now through green fields we arrive at our destination and an overnight stay.

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ateline 09:00 hours. Clear skies soon to turn cloud as our aircraft propels itself like an arrow into the sky and climbs rapidly from the runway with its twin propellers whirling rapidly. Propellers!!!

Since when did anything other than a spitfire have propellers?

And why only two? Surely four is best, and even better fit some jet engines.. But I’m not the aviator nor the mechanic. I’m just a humble passenger.

Looking down I can see herds of animals grazing lazily on lush green grass. Ah, halcyon days of the carefree traveller sipping a G&T and watching the world go by. Industry is scattered around, a concrete works I can see clearly right near a golf club but we are still climbing up and through the clouds into the clear blue sky.

The captain, whose words I’m struggling to grasp due to his speed of speech and unusual dialect, has just informed us that we are at 22000 feet and, due to something or other beyond our control, we will be landing ten minutes early. Try as I may with my sat nav I can never shave ten minutes off my journey unless I go to the wrong place so I’m hoping his reason is either a tail wind, black coffee, better octane fuel or that he was lying in the first place when he told us it would be over an hour.

Peering down now through the

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patchy clouds I see water, lots of it and typically restless. “Man that looks rough” my travelling companion says.

But since when wasn’t the ocean rough?

The airport is small, friendly and mainly used for short flights. Moving swiftly through and singing Brown eyed Girl to myself, we emerge into bright sunshine and see our friends waiting for us in the car. “It’s not usually this sunny” they said, and, for the next four days they couldn’t believe the weather that we were experiencing.

Visiting a strange country, only created in 1921, and being a passenger in the car afforded me the opportunity to look around, which is a rare treat. Having read about what to expect - glacial valleys, castles, golf clubs and mountains I was straining my eyes to see them but no, none to be seen. We passed the odd building with painted gable end, rows of houses, and industry but not a mountain in sight. Had I been sold a pup or a wild dream? Maybe everyone has moved away again.

“Look on your right” says my friend “and you’ll see one of the largest freshwater lakes at 151 square miles”.

A real fountain of knowledge my friend is, but living there does help.

We now head due west and find a river which flows for 80 miles and is named after one of my favourite TV detectives, or maybe the other way round.

Back on the road now which is straight just like the Romans built but I don’t think they ventured this far.

At our destination we pay our dues which I am sure is for a good cause.

I sit on a rock shaped like a boot that is possibly millions of years old and enjoy the view west to another country, which is South of here!

Disoriented? I am, well try this for sizeI also sat looking north at a country south of where I was sitting. Anyway back to the boot. I’m sure that I can hear an organ playing to my right or is that just my imagination. It’s finished now and I can concentrate on the views.

Dashing west along the coast I’m now off past a derelict castle and a royal golf club to get myself an ice cream from this 1911 established ice cream parlour. That’s a red herring as I don’t like ice cream so I had coffee instead.

We now travel a few miles east, with the sea to our left, to a small cove now made famous following a TV programme and through an atmospheric tunnel built in 1775. Our short trip must now come to an end and back to the airport named after a sporting giant who I have shared a drink with a few times. We are propelled back home, land smoothly and walk worry free out of the airport satisfied with a gem of a break.

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Name the place where the rock is Name the atmospheric tunnel Name the airport

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aying you were once a vegetarian is like admitting you were a once better person. But here’s my guilty secret. After ten long years of eating mash and vegetables for Christmas dinner and crying into a bean burger at barbecues, I was lured offcourse by the siren sizzle of bacon.

Sixteen years of meat-eating later and my son – once the ultimate carnivore – has stirred my shame by embracing a semi-vegetarian diet.

He’s not alone. One in eight Britons class themselves as vegetarian or vegan according to the Waitrose Food and Drink Report 2018-19. A further 21 per cent are ‘flexitarian’ – people with a largely plant based diet who are capable of being seduced by a cocktail sausage at parties.

Veganism has also skyrocketed in the past four years. The number of people who shun all animal products has risen from 150,000 to 600,000 according to the Vegan Society.

In my veggie days; vegans were a small, hard-core faction prepared to endure a dismally abstemious diet and risk fungal foot infections (a sideeffect of plastic shoes) because of their unwavering principles.

Now vegan food is affordable, edible and everywhere. Waitrose is just one of many high street stores and restaurants trying to woo shoppers with a range of meatless ready-meals like beetroot risotto and rainbow vegetable stew. Even Greggs, the home of the steak bake, has dominated the headlines with its vegan sausage roll.

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A vegan twist to modern café favourites Right The famous ‘Roti ‘Rap’ Below Vedi, Castleward Walk

Better yet, there’s a fresh crop of vegetarian and vegan entrepreneurs popping up around Derby to help people give up meat for life and not just for Veganuary.

People like Bal Dhamrait (32), who welcomes me to Vedi; a vegetarian café which he runs with his uncle Resh Dorka on Castleward Walk, Derby.

Forget all the old hippy dippy clichés; the patrons of Vedi are more likely to be found chilling on a sleek grey sofa than chanting on an orange bean bag. There’s no sign of rabbit food. Bal uses family recipes to give a vegan twist to modern café favourites like paninis, burritos, jacket spuds and Bal’s famous ‘Roti ‘Rap’ – a roti bread filled with homemade curry and pickle. Then you have the cakes; glitter-strewn and lemon drizzled cupcakes and decadent brownies made by Molly Russell, who runs V Bakes.

“Molly’s cakes are delicious, we can’t keep up with demand,” Bal says as we wait for Molly to join us for a chat. “Baking cakes without eggs and butter is not easy, we did try. Then my sister saw Molly’s stall at Well Fest at Derby’s Roundhouse and rang me to say ‘There’s a girl selling the most amazing cakes.’ You can’t tell they’re vegan – they just taste really good.”

When Molly arrives, it’s obvious why the new business owners developed such an instant rapport. Both believe in gently encouraging people – even lapsed vegetarians like me - towards a meatfree diet by providing delicious alternatives.

“We’re not saying people must change overnight when they may have been eating meat their whole lives,” says Molly (22), who works from her family home in Mackworth which she shares with parents Ian and Angela and sister Katy (19) – none of whom are vegetarian.

“It might be people want one or two meat-less days a week and that’s great. I think what Bal and I are trying to do is produce food which is so good, people don’t feel they’re missing out. We don’t want to give anyone the excuse to fall off the wagon.”

Bal insists the café, which offers 100 per cent vegan food, is for everyone – regardless of their diet. “People come because they’re curious or

they’ve heard about us from friends,” he smiles.

“The first thing they’ll say is ‘what’s that amazing smell?’ We’ll encourage them to taste a little of our curry or scrambled tofu. Once they taste it, they love it. They’re not thinking about the food being vegan – they’re just enjoying it.”

The pairs relaxed approach to meat-eaters reflects the fact their conversion to a plant-based diet came from an initial desire to eat less meat.

“I used to love meat,” Molly laughs. “In February 2016, I’d just returned from three months in Thailand and I’d eaten so much meat, I needed a break. I told my mum I was thinking of becoming veggie and she said I’d be eating bacon sandwiches again within the week. But I’d watched some documentary films about the meat industry. Once you’re doing something for ethical reasons, your determination is so much stronger.”

Bal nods: “I used to eat a lot of meat because I was training in the gym,” he says. “But then I gave up chicken followed by bacon and sausages. The more meat I gave up – the better I felt. I eat as much as I used to and feel stronger and fitter.”

Molly says her switch to vegetarianism, followed by veganism in January 2017, had a profound effect on her health.

“Once I cut out cheese and milk my skin clearedup, my digestion was better and I had so much more energy,” she says. “I remember being quite lethargic when I was in the 6th form and it didn’t occur to me it might be down to my diet. I’m not saying I’m invincible – but I don’t have that 3pm slump.”

But it was the decision to start V Bakes - after finding it impossible to find a homemade vegan birthday cake in Derby - which dramatically changed Molly’s mental well-being.

“I’d been having a really rough time with anxiety and depression,” she says.

Above Vegan cakes for every ocassion

“When I launched the business in May 2018, I realised I’d finally found what I was meant to do and my mental health improved. Baking gave me a reason to get out of bed every day. I still get stressed but I direct it to something positive – making my business more successful.”

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Left Bal Dhamrait and Molly Russell Below Chickpea and coriander burger

Hearing about her flavoursome creations – cherry and ginger brownies, honeycomb and pretzel topped cup-cakes – it’s clear Molly instinctively knows how to marry ingredients. Online reviewers say her cakes are ‘delicious’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘too pretty to eat’.

I’m so grateful there is now a place where I can eat everything on the menu and the food is divine.”

“I spent months trying to get the perfect taste, texture and rise,” Molly says. “At one stage the kitchen was more like a food laboratory. I spent so much time handling vegan spreads and vegetable oil, my hands were really soft. The intention wasn’t just to make a good ‘vegan’ cake, but to make great cake.”

Postscript; After meeting Bal and Molly, I’ve re-introduced two or three meatless meals into my week. My husband says my chickpea and coriander burgers we had last week were ‘so delicious’ he scarcely noticed the lack of meat. Likewise, I pretended to scarcely notice when I saw him scoffing a pork pie later that night.

Molly assumed she would be supplying vegan/ vegetarian outlets – but the majority of her clients are running mainstream cafés.

“I think all cafés have seen an increase in customers asking for vegan options,” Molly says.

“The café owners tell me a lot of non-vegans buy my cakes because they look so nice.”

With the Vegan Society pronouncing veganism ‘the fastest growing lifestyle movement’, it’s no surprise to find Bal and Molly already planning for future expansion.

Above Molly with some of her creations

“This month (April 7th), I’m doing a pop-up ‘Sustainable Sunday’ event at pre-loved clothing boutique The Amber Room on Ashbourne Road, Derby. The ultimate goal is to host regular events and to be joined by other ethical traders,” Molly says. “Long-term, I’d like to have my own bakery and shop in Derby where people can buy my cakes and locally-sourced vegan food and goods.”

She smiles: “It’s amazing to see how far Derby has come in just twelve months. We can’t change the world overnight but we’re laying the groundwork for a more sustainable city.”

Vedi is on Castleward Walk, Derby.

V Bakes will be at Mama Meet & Market, The Family Showcase, on April 14 at The Roundhouse in Derby.

Molly will also be at The Lifestyle Show 2019, at The Roundhouse on May 18.

In addition to Vedi, stockists of V Bakes vegan cakes include: World Peace Café, Ashe Hall, Ash Lane, Etwall Buttermilk Coffee House, Saracens Head Yard, Brailsford Point Six Coffee House, Kedleston Road, Derby Café Aroma, Chapel Street, Spondon The Buttery, 130 Ashbourne Road, Derby.

Contact Molly at vbakes.molly@gmail.com

Bal has his heart set on opening more Vedi cafés.

“In five years, I can see a vegan diet being the norm and I’d love to have a national brand,” he says.

“I believe a lot of people will look back and see eating meat as a silly moment in their past.”

Molly agrees: “I think the diet of future generations will be plant-based,” “Things are changing so quickly. Two years ago, I wouldn’t even bother going out to eat because of the lack of choice – now I can go to all the chain restaurants like Zizzi and Pizza Express. Then you have people like Bal and his family who have created something refreshingly different at Vedi.

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Our Blackvue dashcams are the ideal discreet solution, with excellent choices - Front only, Front and internal (perfect for taxis), Front and rear (suitable for cars, especially electric cars) and Front and external rear (suitable for vans or larger vehicles). Parking mode allows recording and monitoring when the car is parked and the ignition is turned off. Excellent parking mode options include; Wire to car battery (extra £45, ideal for high mileage drivers or electric vehicles) Supply new Blackvue battery (extra £200-£600, essential for low mileage users, below 14k miles for front only or below 25k miles for front and rear dashcams) If your vehicle has it’s own internet (MyFI or Car WiFi), you can even access your dashcam remotely, although you will need data and parking mode for it to work while you’re not in the car.

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and manufactured by Lister in the UK. Unique Lister additions include: front bumper, front splitter, rear diffuser, rear lip spoiler, rear extended wheel arches, a new grille design, and new lightweight alloy wheels fitted with Michelin tyres. Lister has also uprated the suspension and braking system and added a bespoke exhaust system to enhance the sound of the 666 bhp supercharged V8 engine to work perfectly with an open cockpit vehicle. Every LFT-C will be built to a bespoke customer specification, from wheel design to paint finish. The interior adds a real level of unique luxury being entirely retrimmed, by hand with the finest UK Nappa.

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Paul Fiddes Fires & Fireplaces, Stoves & Chimney Sweeping Belper Based covering the Derbyshire Area Installation of most types of fires, stoves and fireplaces.

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he Talk on Life series of articles which appeared in County Images were inspired by a mouse in the loft in January 2008. Following an operation for throat cancer and radiotherapy linked with chemotherapy, sleep was hard to come by but not helped by the resident rodent whose incessant scratching wasn’t a comfort in any way shape or form. It did have its good points though as I was sent a most lovely stuffed mouse by two kind readers.

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Care Homes Rated GOOD in your Area The Meadows Alfreton

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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.

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