Voice Magazines - Ripley & Marehay - June 2021

JUNE ‘21

RIPLEY & MAREHAY

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Hello Readers, My name is Emily and I’ve been the Editor/ Owner of Voice Magazines Ltd for over 10yrs now (it was called Amber Valley Voice in the earlier years). With the addition of our Ripley edition we now have 10 magazines, delivering to well in excess of 50,000 homes in the Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Peak District areas.

I started back in 2010, hand delivering to 2500 homes in Swanwick – all produced, created and delivered by myself and crikey, do I cringe now at those early magazines…. you can see them on our issuu pages if you really want to have a nosey (our website is still under construction – 2yrs later!) Fortunately, I have a wonderful team supporting me these days and it’s our mission to make sure that this publication works for advertisers, readers and communities alike.

Our aim is always to bring you the best local advertisers and local information that you can rely upon. In ordinary times, we run community diaries and event listings, so If you would like to feature in our mags, either as an advertiser or you run a community or not-for-profit group or event, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

Sometimes, we’ll run readers offers or competitions and this month we have got a comp for you guys!! As you are all aware, the Y Not Festival IS running this year yayyyy! We’re so excited, as the Voice team are on tour BUT we also managed to get a

family ticket to give away to our lovely readers. The line up is amazing and something really positive to look forward too after the last couple of years.

SOOOO…. to be in with a chance of winning - all you need to do is answer the following question and email, it back to us.

Which county is the YNot festival held in?

Email us at info@voicemagazines.co.uk before 5pm on 18th June 2021, with the answer, your name & contact telephone number (if we don’t have both of these, you won’t be included in the draw). *T&C’s apply.

We really hope you enjoy reading our mag this month and if you did, the good news is, we’re back every month! So please spread the word and drop us an email if you like, we love hearing from our readers.

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RIPLEY & DISTRICT HERITAGE TRUST

Robert Argile: Councillor, Engineer and Architect Ripley is not known for its architects. Engineers, yes: the Butterley Company’s list of achievements is well known, but architects?

Well, there is one at least whose work merits attention, and the more so since designing buildings seemed to be a sideline for him, his main activity being civil engineering works: he supervised the laying of most of early Ripley’s drainage system, for example.

Robert Argile was not formally trained as an architect: he learned on the job, both at Butterley and from his father, another Robert, who had progressed from being a foreman at the “steam engine manufactory” (Butterley) in his mid-thirties to becoming a selfemployed consulting engineer, even designing the new hall and shops for the Ripley Co-operative Society in 1880. Like his son, he also played an important role in both in the Baptist church and the town’s local government.

Robert Junior spent most of his time as a surveyor and consulting engineer but from time to time he designed buildings, mainly non-conformist chapels like those in Mapperley (1875), Kilburn (1891) and Marehay (1903).

Later, in 1911, he designed Ripley Hospital, a project he had long campaigned for.

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His greatest achievement, however, was not in Ripley but in Dale Street, Manchester: Langley Buildings.

This was a 5 storey long narrow construction, in the baroque style, elaborately faced in terracotta tiles, built in 1908 as the printing office of the “Daily News” and the warehouse for the burgeoning mail order firm of J.D. Williams. Now a listed building, it is totally unlike anything else he built.

How did he come to build It? The answer seems to lie in his commitment to his church. In 1878, James David Williams, a draper from London, had married Amy Ann Coupe at Ripley’s Baptist chapel.

The Coupe family, who lived at Porter House in Ripley, were also devout Baptists and would have known Robert Argile, one of the church’s elders, well. What more trustworthy man, then, to help found a retail empire?

In 1897 in Ripley he had laid out a new road called Argyll Road, modestly changing the spelling to make it refer to the Duke of Argyll. Yet what better tribute to his role in building the town and its infrastructure, than to name a street after him? Perhaps it should be changed back!

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Ripley Town Council Derbyshire Council of the Year 2020

NEW MAYOR FOR RIPLEY TOWN COUNCIL

The Mayor has chosen two local charities to support during his time in office. They are Midland Railway Trust and Butterley Ironworks Trust. He has a keen interest in the history of Ripley and its wonderful heritage and tourism.

Cllr. Emmas-Williams said, ‘It is a privilege and honour to have been elected as the Mayor of Ripley Town Council for the ensuing year. I look forward to meeting people from all parts of the Township.’

He added, ‘I hope that the residents and ley, Councillor, The Mayor of Rip lliams Roland Emmas-Wi

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local businesses across the township, recover from the Covid pandemic and I

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This is Cllr Roland Emmas-Williams’ fourth time as Mayor of Ripley.

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THE STORY SO FAR remain the same. They offer a full site design survey with 3D panoramic images and bespoke kitchens that cater for your every whim. Offering a wide variety of styles and colours in both doors and worktops there is something to suit every budget.

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World Music Day! “Music was my first love”, so sang John Miles in 1976…but what does music mean to you?

21st June is World Music Day - it’s also the day that the UK is due to be fully liberated from the restrictions imposed

by COVID (fingers crossed of course!) as well as being the Summer Solstice.

Will you be listening to a few tunes to celebrate, or is music not high on your list of likes?

Music has always been an integral part of being human. Musical instruments have been around for thousands of years, the earliest known being flutes, made out of mammoth bone, and dating back an incredible 43,000 years! Even before that impressively early period in prehistory, it isn’t a stretch to imagine our early ancestors using the power of their voices to create music. Not all of us are blessed with amazingly tuneful voices, yet most of us are able to recognise and enjoy that skill in others. I like to think of my ancestor, umpteen generations removed, sitting around the fire humming along and tapping her feet as someone else sings a song (I do have a vivid imagination though…curse of the writer!).

Music certainly has some sort of power over us, hearing a song from ‘back in the day’, can instantly transport you in time. And have you ever noticed that you can remember the lyrics of a song from years ago and yet struggle to remember where you put the car keys? I know I have! This connection between music and memory is why it is often used to help people living with dementia, and in care homes in general. For a truly heart warming example of how music memory

remains long after other memories have faded, type ‘dementia ballet dancer’ into Google and prepare to be amazed (have a tissue handy!).

Staying with memory, well the mind anyway - one of the best ways to ensure your brain remains in tip top condition for as long as possible is to learn to play an instrument. You may never be a virtuoso, but the very act of learning to play helps to form new neural paths in your brain (it’s called neuroplasticity) it’s like exercise for your grey matter.

If you want to see if there are any World Music Day events near you, I recommend you checking out www. makemusicday.co.uk/events. You can create and add your own events to that site too - so if there isn’t anything local to you, why not think about organising a get together? It needn’t be big, expensive, and flashy - it could just be a concert on your local village green or in the pub carpark. It would be a great way to get your neighbours and friends together after what has been a horrible year or so.

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Beer Goggles Did you know that June 15th is National Beer Day? I can’t say as I did until I saw it written down somewhere, but it did lead me to think about beer - or more accurately the history of beer, before someone accuses me of being an alcofrolic with beer goggles on!

A little spot of ‘Googling’ (minus the beer goggles of course) and I managed to establish that beer is in fact a very, very, very old beverage indeed. In fact the earliest archaeological evidence of a beer produced by fermentation is a 13,000-year-old residue found in a cave near Haifa in Israel. As a drink it may not have tickled our modern taste buds, being of a ‘gruel’ like consistency apparently, but it just goes to show that where man goes, beer seems to inevitably follow!

Since beer is essentially a by-product of fermenting grain, it may well have been discovered accidentally in many different places throughout the world when humans began to live a more settled agriculturally based existence and grains featured more heavily in the daily diet.

One of the earliest written down recipes for beer comes from a 3,900-year-old Sumerian poem about Ninkasi, their patron goddess of brewing. It described beer being made from the barley left from the production of bread.

‘Small beer’, a very low alcohol brew would have been the drink of choice throughout Europe and the UK in the middle ages. In a climate not suitable for growing grapes to turn into wine, beer was a readily available alternative, and workers involved in heavy labour were known to drink up to 10 pints a day. By the 15th century the addition of hops to a brew reached the UK; an unhopped beer would have been known as an ale, while the use of hops would make it a beer.

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The Industrial Revolution saw the beginning of the mass production of beers which ultimately led to the large scale breweries of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Commercialisation and mechanisation led to a reduction in locally produced brews, replacing them with standard, often chemically laden concoctions.

To the relief of many a beer aficionado, this trend of mass production has been reversed somewhat in the past 20 or so years, with the emergence of many craft beer breweries - small scale, local, and each creating their own unique beers.

Derbyshire is blessed with many of these producers including Howard Town, Glossop; Thornbridge and Peak Ales both near Bakewell; Eyam Brewery; Buxton Brewery; Intrepid in the Hope Valley; Wolds Farm and Moot Ales, near Matlock…even the most beer phobic amongst us should be able to find something to our tastes. (Personally, I favour Howard Town’s ‘Hope’ - but I am biased because the head brewer is a friend!).

Next time you raise a pint, give pause to think of the generations before you who have done the same over the last several thousand years.

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The Other Lambretta Boys

In the 1960s and early 70s the newsrooms were full of stories featuring Mods and Rockers fighting on the beaches and promenades of England, the Rockers on their BSA’s, Triumphs and Nortons; the Mods on their Vespas and Lambrettas.

Their conflicts hit the headlines not only in this country but throughout Europe and beyond. But there were other Lambretta boys who never made News at Ten and I was one. On my 16th birthday, my maternal grandparents handed me £100 and told me to use it wisely. I did.

I wandered down the street and bought a second hand Lambretta SX200 from a local centre half of ill repute. I would have tried to haggle the price down but thought better of it. Back then if you saw a young man with missing teeth, a broken nose and concussion you could have a good bet that it was a local centre forward who had recently played against him. His name will stay anonymous...but every ex footballer aged between 60 and 75 will know exactly who it is It had a Union Jack seat. I had a Union Jack crash helmet. Some people thought I looked cool... the great majority thought I looked like a t**t.

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My best mate also bought an SX200. By this time I was an experienced rider having had mine 3 days...so I decided to take him on his first run out. All was going well until we got to the first traffic lights and, as I stopped at the red he came hurtling by on the pavement and smashed into a pile of builders sand. I’d taught him how to start it but omitted to explain where the brakes were.

We were The Other Lambretta Boys!!

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Gardener’s Calendar Despite our chilly spring most gardens are bursting with life. You can start to think about pruning early flowering shrubs such as forsythia, currant and mock orange to ensure you get a good show of flowers next year. Leave it later and the flowers are less likely. Take out diseased stems to ground level and cut back generally to a lower strongly growing stem. Cut back a quarter of older stems to the base.

Nasturtiums and night scented stock are among the seeds you can still be planting now, along with other “companion” plants which will help keep pests away. These usually have a strong scent, which confuse the insects which will damage your prize plants, whether fruit and veg or the likes of roses. So you can use nasturtiums alongside beans, lavender for carrots, calendula and mint for tomatoes, although watch out that the mint doesn’t take over your plot. Artemesia attracts things like ladybirds which see off aphids.

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The Splendour of the Red Tree from Turkey

All across the Peak District there is most stunning and splendid wild sight emerging as the ‘wild rhododendron’ bursts into bloom. This is the bane of conservationists but much-loved by the public (and a lot of wildlife too). Many people don’t realise this is an ‘alien’, exotic, or non-native plant, and those who do, think it comes from the Himalayas.

This spectacular shrub is Rhododendron ponticum or literally ‘The Red Tree from Turkey’; so yes, there is a clue there. Most rhododendrons do come from the Himalayas from the Sikkim and Bhutan across into China; with a few in North America, a small number in Europe, and a lot in tropical forests. However, our ‘wild’ shrub is from Europe and around the Mediterranean.

Landowners loved it for shelter, ornament, and especially game cover for shoots. Many planted it as wildlife cover and its stunning flowers, and it was extensively used as root-stock for less hardy prize rhododendrons brought to Britain by the Empire’s plant hunters. Collectors travelled the globe in search of the exotic, and it burst onto and across the Peak’s countryside for 200 years spreading unnoticed and uncontrolled. This is one of the most successful of our invasive alien plants and talk of attempted total eradication is pie-inthe-sky. There’s been ‘talk’ of effective control for sixty years or more by forestry experts, and rhododendron can be dealt with on individual sites. However, there is no effective strategy or policy to stop the further spread across the landscape. Personally I cannot see government spending the huge amount of cash that would be needed and also I don’t imagine everybody would be agreeable or co-operative. Many of the seed-plants are in small, private gardens and I just don’t think people will take to them being ‘eradicated’. This plant can cause a head-ache for site managers but gardeners and many of the resident and visiting public love it.

This flowering event becomes a natural spectacular which in places like the Peak District and Snowdonia in particular, presents with stunning vistas and views. This is an annual happening for which people travel miles to see and has become a tourism attraction. Covering woods, heaths, moorland edge, and old parklands with a blanket of red and purple to mauve flowers, the impact is dramatic. Outside this peak of flowering the shrub is far less obvious and is often unnoticed. Invading natural habitats it clearly impacts on native wildlife but not always negatively. However, there is a twist in this story for a plant often demonised as an alien invader.

It was native in Britain between the recent glacial periods but somehow never returned when icy chills mellowed around 15,000 years ago. It was effectively banished to the far flung tips of Europe and Near Asia (Turkey, Lebanon, Portugal, and Spain), until 1763 when plant collectors brought seeds back to London’s Kew Gardens.

From there as they say, the rest is history.

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I sometimes sit and gaze in awe at the different shaped leaves of tomatoes, chard, carrots, leeks, potatoes, radishes, pumpkins, squash, courgettes, rhubarb, etc, imagining the photosynthesis that is going on in the chloroplasts where electrons in chlorophyll get excited by blue and red light. This is the energy-harvesting stage of photosynthesis, the other stage being the reduction of carbon dioxide to sugar in the Calvin cycle, making use of the energy absorbed by the chlorophyll. The oxygen is released to sustain life and the sugars are used by plants for energy, cell division and growth and to make the cellulose of plant cell walls and starch, a stored energy source. In C3 plants photosynthesis takes place only once in mesophyll cells. In C4 plants photosynthesis takes place twice - in mesophyll cells as well as in bundle sheath cells giving them an advantage in drought conditions.

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