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Coming Events Peak Rail Travel on a preserved steam railway through beautiful countryside between Rowsley and Matlock. Onboard buffet and bar, restaurant coaches, station tearoom and buffet, gift and book shops free parking. Open all year, contact 01629 580381 for details. Peak Walking Group offers walks in the Peak District. 10am start. All walks are varied between 6-12 miles and are circular. Own transport needed. Contact http://www.peakwalkinggroup.co.uk/ or contact 01246 853155. Rowsley Methodist Chapel Sunday service. 2.30pm. Tansley Methodist Church Morning Service 10.30am followed by coffee. Evening Service 6pm. Rev. Keith Bamford 01629 259128. The Dales Christian Centre 29 Chesterfield Road Matlock; morning service including Sunday School, 10.30 am, Sunday Evening service 6pm 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. Affiliated to Assemblies of God. Tel. 01629 55755 The Dales’ Evangelical Church Meeting in the Community Rooms, Arc Leisure Matlock, Bakewell Road, Matlock DE4 3AZ. Sunday worship services at 11am and 6pm. Minister: Revd Richard Brooks. 01629 733744/733520. www.thedalesec.org.uk The Living Hope Church 10.30am in Hathersage Memorial Hall, Oddfellows Road, for praise, worship and ministry from God’s word. For more details, and because we occasionally meet at other venues, please contact Pastor Tim Pritt 01433 650942. Wirksworth Methodist Church Sunday Worship 10.30am followed by coffee and 6pm. Details from Rev. Dr. Robert Foster 01773 839795. or just turn up. Wirksworth Netball Club Youth (under 18)/Junior Players (year 6). During term time. 10am-12noon. Wirksworth Leisure Centre. Tel. Joy Cooke 01629 822229. Zen in the Peak District 11am. Meditation practice, instruction and help followed by vegetarian lunch and afternoon talk and walk for those who want, near Matlock Bath. Contact jibul@kwanumzen.org.uk or visit http://www.kwanumzen.org.uk/The Peak/ for more info. EVERY DAY Breakfast Club at Castleton. 7.45-8.45am. 07890 050196/01433 620630.
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Bakewell Pre School Playgroup We offer flexible three hour sessions; 2 to school age. Mon-Fri, 9am-12 noon, St John Hall, Bakewell. Call in or contact 07976 140475 for further details. Bakewell Nursery School We welcome children from 3 months to 5 years. Free flexible sessions for eligible two, three and four year olds. Open 52 weeks of the year 8am-6pm. Contact Mrs J.M. Teale, Head of the Nursery on 01629 813888. Biggin by Hartington Pre-School Ofsted approved. 8.45-12.30pm. 2-4 yrs. Contact Lisa Blood 07527 185969/Linda Kirkham 01298 687465. Brassington Pre-School for 2+ year olds in village hall, Brassington. Mon/Thur/Fri 9.15am-12.15pm. Tues/Wed 9.15am-12.15pm and 12.15-3pm. Contact Fliss Bridges 01629 540855. Cromford Pre-School Playgroup Mon. 12noon-3pm, Tue-Fri 9am-12noon. Tel. 07905 937371 during session time or call in. Darley Churchtown Out of School Club Breakfast Club. 8-8.50am. After School Club 3.15-6pm. During term time only. Tel. Mrs S. Wood 01629 735851. Discovery Centre at the National Stone Centre, Wirksworth. 10am-5pm. Treasure shop/store of stone exhibition/cafe/gem panning. Flagg Nursery School provides top quality free nursery education. Open from 8.15am-3.15pm. Tel. 01298 85208. Free Children’s Competition at the Painted Plate, Eyam. Open for pottery painting. Tel. 01433 639200. Great Longstone Pre-School The Old School House, Main Street, Great Longstone. Term time 9.15am-12.15pm. Please phone 01629 640842. Holloway Playgroup Florence Nightingale Village Hall, Mill Lane, Holloway. Session times 9.15-12.15pm, Mon-Fri during term time. Tel. Lex anytime on 07838 044153 for a free trial session or Holloway Playgroup in session times on 07813 501731. Matlock Bath Pre-School Playgroup meets for 3 hours each morning from 912noon at the Pavilion Community Centre. Tel. Sarah Stephenson 07870 525001. Matlock Pre-School Playgroup 205 Smedley Street, Matlock. Session times 8.50-11.50am and 12.30-3.30pm. Tel. 01629 583639 during session times. Parwich Pre-School Stepping Stones 9am-12noon. Parwich Memorial Hall. Details call Helen 01335 346317 after 2pm. Peak Time Kids Club Hathersage after-school club in its own building on Hathersage School site. 3.15-6pm during school term time and from 8am6pm during school holidays. Tel. Lynne Condon on 01433 650004. Pilsley Pre-School Nursery 12.45-3.15pm in the Early Years Suite. If you would like to register your child, please contact the school on 01246 583203. Rowsley Pre-School Village Hall. Open daily Mon, Thu and Fri 8.30-11.30am. Tues and Wed 8.30am-4.30pm. Children taken from 2 yrs and free places for 3 and 4 yr olds. For further details Lulie 07917 624120. South Darley Pre-School Playgroup South Darley village hall. For children 2 years upwards. Mon and Thurs 9.15am-12.15pm and 12.30-3.30pm (lunch club available for all day session). Tues, Wed, and Fri 9.15am-12.15pm. Free places for 3 and 4 years olds and eligible 2 year olds. Sarah 07863 771636. Stepping Stones Pre-School Parwich Mon-Thurs 9am-12noon at the Parwich Memorial Hall. Fri 8.45-11.45am at Parwich Primary School. Children ages 2 - school age. Free government funding for 3 and 4 year olds. Tel. Helen Downing 01335 346317. Taddington Tigers meet after school in the new school hall to enjoy playing with friends. Tel. 01298 85278 or arrange to pay a visit. The Hall Nursery School Stoney Middleton, nr Bakewell. Free places for 3 and 4 year olds in a converted 18th coach house in the grounds of Middleton Hall. Contact Mrs Sarah Glossop 01433 631295 for further details. Wirksworth Pre-School Playgroup Cemetery Lane, Wirksworth. Sessions are held from 9am-11.30am and 12.45-3.15pm. Tel. Liz on 01629 822625. Youlgrave Playschool 9am-12 noon. Enq. 07745 191366. PLACES OF INTEREST Chatsworth House, Garden and Farmyard open everyday to 23rd December. Open 11am-5.30pm (4.30pm last admission for the house. Garden open 11am-6pm (5pm last admission). Farmyard and adventure playground open 10.30am-5.30pm (4.30pm last admission). For further information 01246 565300. www.chatsworth.org Eyam Hall Historic House The Craft Centre is open every day except Monday throughout the year 10.30am-5pm. For further information 01433 639565. Caudwell’s Mill, Rowsley Unique Victorian ‘automatic’ water-powered roller flour Mill on the beautiful River Wye. Four fascinating floors to explore plus top-class quality flours from the Mill shop. Café offers quality snacks and meals. Open daily between 10am-5.30pm. Free entry to all craft workshops and free parking. Flour sales daily all year round. For further information, tel. and fax 01629 734374. Wirksworth Heritage Centre open Wed-Sat plus all bank holidays 10.30am4.30pm. Sun. 1.30-4.30pm. For further information 01629 825225. www.storyofwirksworth.co.uk
DECEMBER THURSDAY 19 BAKEWELL AND DISTRICT FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY 7.30pm. Town Hall, Bakewell. 19 BASLOW DERBYSHIRE DALES WALKING FOR HEALTH 10am. Easy 45 – 90 minute walks around Baslow and the Chatsworth Estate. Meet at Nether End bus stop by the village green, public toilets and car park. 19 DERBYSHIRE DALES GROUP OF THE RAMBLERS’ ASSOCIATION 10am. 8 miles. Moderate. Darley Bridge PS CP. Matlock and Limestone Way. 01629 732799. 19 STARKHOLMES AND DISTRICT THURSDAY CLUB 2-4pm. Christmas lunch at Chesterfield College. Any enq. please ring Marjorie Thorpe on 01629 55816 or Arlene Hobson 01629 593566. 19 WIRKSWORTH THURSDAY GROUP The Community Room, Methodist Chapel, Wood Street, Wirksworth. 10am-12noon. Christmas in the Dales - Andy Frith. 19 - 31 WINTER WONDERLAND CELEBRATIONS Christ Church, Burbage. Church open 20th, 21st, 23rd. Light refreshments available. MondayFriday 2-4pm. Saturday 10am-4pm. Sunday service 9.30am. 19th Concert 6pm, to include guides, brownies and pre-school. 24th Crib Service 5pm.
FRIDAY 20 CHRISTMAS CAROL CONCERT AT ST MARY’S CHURCH Meet in the Mill Yard. Donation. Wassail by lantern light to St Mary’s Church for a carol concert and selection of readings at 7.30pm. The concert will be followed by refreshments including festive punch and cake. Bring a torch or battery operated lantern. Audience members are encouraged to dress in Georgian costumes if they wish. 20 DERBYSHIRE FEDERATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH 2pm. Meet at the bandstand in Hall Leys Park, Matlock for a walk up to 2 hours. 20 MATLOCK EDGEFOLD CLUB Sequence and ballroom dancing to Steve. 811pm. 20 WHIST DRIVE Sheen village hall. 8pm. £1.50 incl. refreshments. In aid of Sheen Church. Please tel. George 01298 84492. 20 CHRISTMAS TREES in Hartington Village Hall. 20th 6pm; 21st 11-3pm. On the Friday evening:- Village Community night – there will be a wonderful display of 18 “theme decorated” Christmas Tree’s, which have been provided by the groups/businesses in the village -Carol Singing; Mince Pies; Mulled Wine; Christmas Raffle, Tombola, Christmas Tree Colouring competition for the children visit from Father Christmas, and a special Christmas presentation by the young people of Hartington. Please come and support this event which is for everyone. Funds raised will be for the Village Hall. 20th “Come a Caroling” – Yes it’s that time of year again! Come and join us at the village hall. 6pm, collect a carol sheet and ready yourselves for a “Winter Wander” around the village, a’ caroling as we go. Please bring a torch or lantern and wear “high vis” clothing. On our return to the village hall for mulled wine and mince pies we shall sing a little more. Please come along and bring the family. If you can’t make it for 6pm we will be back in the village hall around 7.15pm so please come and join us then. For more information contact Liz Broomhead- 01298 687263. 20 & 21 THE WINSTER GUISERS 20th The Druid Inn, Birchover. 8.15pm. 21st The Red Lion, Birchover. 9pm. Guising is a local tradition better known around England as Mumming. The dictionary tells us that a ‘mummer’ is one who ‘masquerades’ in a folk play usually at Christmas whilst a ’Guiser’ is a person in disguise. So visit Birchover's pubs to see the Winster Guisers perform their traditional play - Get there early!
SATURDAY 21 BAKEWELL FARMERS’ MARKET Agricultural Centre. 9am-2pm. Parking and easy access. Contact 01629 813777. 21 DERBYSHIRE DALES GROUP OF THE RAMBLERS’ ASSOCIATION 10am. 7 miles. Moderate. Duffield Bridge Inn CP, Hazelwood, Chevin, Makeney. 01332 552822.
Peak Advertiser 23rd December 2013 – Page 27 21 EVENING OF CLAIRVOYANCE Cromford Institute, 16 The Hill, Cromford, DE4 3QL. Guest medium is Stephen Rowlands. Doors open 6.15pm, evening starts at 7pm until 10pm. Tickets are £10 each to include a buffet. Seats are limited, so get yours from Cromford Post Office before they all sell out. Bar available.
SUNDAY 22 BUXTON RAMBLING CLUB Start at Pavilions car park, Buxton (next to swimming pool). Walk 1: Mince pie walk – Short up to 8 miles. 10am. Anyone welcome. Membership £5 single or £8 family per year. Contact 01298 72230 or 01298 23441. www.buxtonramblingclub.co.uk 22 CAROL SERVICE Darley Hillside Methodist Church. 10.30am. 22 CAROL SERVICE Dale Road Methodist Church. 6.30pm. 22 CHRISTMAS CAROL SERVICE Wormhill Parish Council. 6.30pm. With Peak Dale Junior Band. All welcome. 22 CHRISTMAS PRAISE with Matlock Band, Hackney Methodist Church. 10.30am. 22 DERBYSHIRE DALES GROUP OF THE RAMBLERS’ ASSOCIATION 10am. 11 miles. Moderate. Coldwell End CP, Youlgreave, Long Dale, ELton and Robin Hoods Stride. 01629 636350. 22 GREAT HUCKLOW OLD CHAPEL (UNITARIAN) 10.30am. Service – conducted by Rev David Shaw. 22 HACKNEY METHODIST CHURCH Greenaway Lane, Hackney, Matlock, DE4 2QB. Christmas Praise, carols, readings, brass ensemble. 10.30am. All welcome. 22 HALCYON RAMBLING CLUB 9.45am. 9 miles (grade 3). SK 250787. Grindleford station, Burbage Edge, Padley Gorge. 0114 2306109. www.halcyonrambling.co.uk 22 MATLOCK EDGEFOLD CLUB Sequence and ballroom dancing to CD’s. 810.30pm. 22 VILLAGE CAROL SINGING (Birchover). Find your festive hats and jingle bells and join us for traditional Carol singing around the village – musicians welcome… Meet at The Tank Bus Stop at 6pm, to sing in the street, calling at the Druid for mince pies….. and then visiting Alyson and Matteo at the Red Lion for a glass of Mulled Wine. Everyone welcome!
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29 DERBYSHIRE DALES GROUP OF THE RAMBLERS’ ASSOCIATION 10am. 10 miles. Moderate. Bakewell, Holme Lane, Shacklow Wood, Monsal Head and Great Longstone. 01298 85354. 29 HALCYON RAMBLING CLUB 9.45am. 10 miles (grade 2). SK 198718. Great Longstone (meet at White Lion), Monsal Head, Ashford in the Water, Bakewell. 07879 404108. www.halcyonrambling.co.uk 29 MATLOCK EDGEFOLD CLUB Sequence and ballroom dancing to Richard Keeling. 8-10.30pm.
TUESDAY 31 MATLOCK DERBYSHIRE DALES WALKING FOR HEALTH 10am - Moderate walk 60 – 90 minutes. Meet at Starkholmes Village Hall. 31 MATLOCK EDGEFOLD CLUB Entertainment with Lizard Kings and Book Ends. 9pm-1am. 31 NEW YEARS EVE CHANTED PRAYERS AND MEDITATION BY CANDLELIGHT at Heart Jewel Kadampa Buddhist Centre, Holme Road, Matlock Bath DE4 3NU. Join us for chanted prayers to Buddha Avalokiteshvara, the Buddha of Compassion ,and strengthen your mind of compassion through meditation in preparation for the New Year. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event. Light refreshments served from 10.15pm with prayers and meditation from 10.45pm - midnight. For further information please contact the Centre on 01629 581585 or email epc.heartjewelcentre@gmail.com www.heartjewel.org.uk
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FAMILY SERVICE St Helen’s Church, Churchtown. 4pm. LIVING NATIVITY Dale Road Methodist Church. 6pm. HOLY COMMUNION St Helen’s, Churchtown. 11.30pm. HOLY COMMUNION St John’s, Winster. 11.30pm. HOLY COMMUNION St Mary’s, South Darley. 11.30pm. MATLOCK EDGEFOLD CLUB Entertainment with Ashwood. 9pm to midnight.
ALL AGE WORSHIP St Mary’s, South Darley. 10.30am. ALL AGE WORSHIP Dale Road Methodist Church. 10.30am. FAMILY EUCHARIST St Helen’s, Churchtown. 11am. GREAT HUCKLOW OLD CHAPEL (UNITARIAN) 10.30am. Service – conducted by Liz Shaw. 25 HALCYON RAMBLING CLUB 10am. 5 miles (grade 2). SK 259779. The Grouse (layby). Ramble in the area. 0114 2306109. www.halcyonrambling.co.uk
A NEW YEAR’S MARKET in Alstonefield Village Hall DE6 2FR from 10am3pm. Stalls selling all kinds of goods, including antique objets d’art, vintage clothes and jewellery, craft, hand-crafted cards, books, bric-abrac, home-made cakes, tombola and many more attractions. The Manifold Trio will there to play popular melodies. Refreshments available all day served from the kitchen in aid of the village hall redecoration fund.
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THURSDAY 26 BUXTON RAMBLING CLUB Start at Pavilions car park, Buxton (next to swimming pool). Walk 1: Shivering Mountain - meet at Pavilion Gardens at 10.30am. Anyone welcome. Membership £5 single or £8 family per year. Contact 01298 72230 or 01298 23441. www.buxtonramblingclub.co.uk
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28 DERBYSHIRE DALES GROUP OF THE RAMBLERS’ ASSOCIATION 10am. 6 miles. Moderate. Allestree, Woodlands Lane CP. Local walk. 01332 557887.
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BUXTON RAMBLING CLUB Start at Pavilions car park, Buxton (next to swimming pool). Walk 1: Lantern Pike – Short up to 8 miles. 10am. Walk 2: Tissington – Medium 8-12 miles. 9.30am. Anyone welcome. Membership £5 single or £8 family per year. Contact 01298 72230 or 01298 23441. www.buxtonramblingclub.co.uk GREAT HUCKLOW OLD CHAPEL (UNITARIAN) 10.30am. Service – conducted by Wendy Allen. HALCYON RAMBLING CLUB 9.45am. 9.5 miles (grade 2). SK 369784. Dronfield Sports Centre CP (off Farwater Lane), Monk Wood, Barlow, Cutthorpe, Barlow, Lees, Dronfield. 01246 411237. www.halcyonrambling.co.uk
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SUNDAY 29 BUXTON RAMBLING CLUB Start at Pavilions car park, Buxton (next to swimming pool). Walk 1: Earl Sterndale – Short up to 8 miles. 10am. Walk 2: Dane Valley – Medium 8-12 miles. 9.30am. Anyone welcome. Membership £5 single or £8 family per year. Contact 01298 72230 or 01298 23441. www.buxtonramblingclub.co.uk 29 GREAT HUCKLOW OLD CHAPEL (UNITARIAN) 10.30am. Service – DIY led by Liz Shaw. Celebrating winter.
BAKEWELL DERBYSHIRE DALES WALKING FOR HEALTH 10am. Moderate walk 90 – 120 minutes. Meet at the Agricultural Business Centre, Bakewell – Pay and Display Car Park. EYAM W.I. Mechanics Institute. 7.45pm. Life Before Eyam - Rev Mike Gilbert talks about the experiences he brings to our community. Visitors and new members very welcome.
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BUXTON RAMBLING CLUB Start at Pavilions car park, Buxton (next to swimming pool). Walk 1: Taxal Edge, meet at Pavillion Gardens at 10.30am. Anyone welcome. Membership £5 single or £8 family per year. Contact 01298 72230 or 01298 23441. www.buxtonramblingclub.co.uk
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BAKEWELL PHOTO CLUB Friends Meeting House, Chapel Row, Bakewell. 7.30pm. Tony Pioli. Award winning photographer will give his talk and thoughts on photographic composition. MATLOCK RAILWAY CLUB The Duke William, 91, Church Street, Matlock. 8pm. Film show. In the Days of Steam plus The Golden Age of Steam. Non members welcome. MATLOCK AND DISTRICT HARD OF HEARING CLUB Imperial Rooms, Matlock. 2pm. Bingo. Contact Celia Ramage 01629 55613. WHIST DRIVE Join us on the 1st Monday of every month at Biggin Village Hall at 8pm for an enjoyable evening of whist, refreshments and great prizes! Easy adjacent parking and good disabled access. Enquiries please ring Joan on 01335 390377 or Betty on 01298 84370.
The Solution to Christmas Carol Fatigue?
Christmas is coming, with festive music greeting us at every turn – but, with the season seemingly starting earlier every year, how many of us are already secretly a bit fed up of hearing the same old carols played on repeat? One local musician thinks he has hit upon a solution. Fraser Wilson, who runs the choral group Albion, says: “Christmas carols are timeless and really make the season, but they can get a bit same-y year after year.” Fraser is popularising a new style of carol-singing. He takes carols that are already well loved and familiar, but creates new versions of them to be sung by Albion’s twelve unaccompanied voices. Fraser, a busy composer now based in the Peaks, explains: “I call the process reimagining, because I aim to preserve the essence of the carol, even though I am creating new harmonies and a new texture around it.” He usually begins by playing or singing through the carol twenty or thirty times until he knows it intimately. He then experiments with harmonies and ideas at the piano “until the solution comes into my head, and
the music is often fully formed before I begin to write it down.” Then the choir gets to work: an unusual group, they sing without a conductor and do not use sheet music, so every singer has to memorise it before they can begin to perform. Last December, the group released its first CD, ‘Salutation’, a compilation
of Fraser’s new Christmas carol arrangements. They were delighted with the positive reaction of listeners across the world. This Christmas, the singers have high hopes for the new versions of classics O Holy Night and The Coventry Carol that they are preparing to perform next week. “We hope that these new carols will continue to
travel the globe and, in a small but interesting way, that they’ll put our corner of the world on the map for contributing something new to Christmas.” Albion’s 2013 Christmas concerts take place on Friday 20 December (Holy Trinity Church, Millhouses, and Saturday 21 December, Tideswell. Tickets from www.albionchoir.org.uk
TADDINGTON & DISTRICT W.I.
Colour, Contrasts and Culture was the theme for a talk by Trevor Ride at our November meeting. The Taddington Group of ladies and a guest were enthralled by Trevor’s ’Passage to India’ taking in all the wonderful colours of the dresses, flowers, the markets and buildings, the contrast in the living standards of the rich, the middle class and the poor, and the culture of the people. How would we react if cows were allowed to roam freely on Spring Gardens and Bakewell market? But the people just accept this as a normal way of life and woe betide anyone who may think differently. The opulence of the cathedrals
and mosques and the tourist hotels contrasted so greatly with the shelters of the poor people – they certainly could not be called houses. What was evident was that everyone appeared to be smiling and happy and did not seem to want anything better. We gasped when Trevor said that they had journeyed across India by train, having seen pictures of the crowded Indian transport. However, we were assured that in Trevor and Tony’s case the train that they travelled on was quite luxurious, with cabin attendants who lived in a cupboard-like room at the end of the train corridor but really enjoyed their work in
spite of their cramped conditions. We were surprised to hear that Hinduism is the main religion of India with Islam next and Christianity, Sikhism, Buddhism and Jainism being followed by only a small percentage of people. Trevor was thanked for his wonderful presentation and as an encore showed us a video of a temple which was dedicated to rodents. Unbelievable!!! As we will be going out for our Christmas meal in December and there is no meeting in January, the Taddington W.I. wish everyone a Very Happy Christmas and a Peaceful New Year.