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Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback regarding last month’s front covers & the mags in general, it is hugely appreciated. I have said before, feedback (preferably positive where possible!!) is always welcomed and keeps our little team motivated to keep trying different things. When we receive a lovely e-mail, like we have from some readers this month, it truly lifts us all and I am so proud of our team & how they’ve all remained positive over the last 18 months, so thank you, it’s nice to be nice! I will do an introduction editorial to the team once we’ve got the website up and running. I’m conscious that I keep mentioning team members & it’d be better to put a face to a name! However, I think it’s fair to give a special mention to Danielle regarding the feedback on the mags, as she has and is continuing to do a sterling job on the community engagement aspect of Voice Magazines – all these new articles, are pretty much down to Danielle’s vision for what people would like to read more about….so much so, I think she’ll be looking for some support soon! Mr Emily & I went on our hollibobs, whilst the rest of the team supported our very own Paul during his boxing debut for an Ultimate White Collar Boxing event in Pride Park. Paul originally signed up around November 2019 for the event in April 2020 but for obvious reasons, he has had the date scheduled and rescheduled a good

3 or 4 times! This has been a nightmare for him, not least as he’s been having to stop and start his training. Anyway, it finally happened on the 11th September, the team donned their glad rags and I speak for all of us when I say that we couldn’t be any prouder of his performance and his resolve to keep picking himself up, start training again and stand up in the ring. He raised some fantastic money for cancer research with some of our lovely advertisers supporting him both by donating and attending. Watch out Anthony Joshua, Paul is coming for your crown! The Voice ladies also had a fabulous outing this month to the Somercotes Cineroom to see ‘Little Women’. What an absolutely fabulous initiative and really well done to the organisers, we all loved it – read our thoughts in this months Swanwick edition or online. It’s ‘Cruella’ next! In other news, it’s the Christmas editions for the next two magazines – and no! I still haven’t sorted any Christmas shopping out…..I tried…..and then the moment passed again!!! Anyway, get your adverts and events in, the team are waiting to hear from you! Happy Reading,

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Hello everyone We were so excited to see our children returning to preschool in September, they have grown so much over the summer and we have enjoyed listening to their summer adventures. We also welcomed our new children into pre-school. They came with their parents for a settling in visit and have now begun to settle into the pre-school routine. It is amazing how much confidence they have ! This September we also welcomed parents back into the preschool. We pride ourselves in having strong parent partnerships and enjoy having a chat and a catch up with our parents at the start and end of every session. It is so lovely to have this normality back ! This term we have introduced our lending library. Parents and children can choose a book together to take home and read. We love books at preschool, you can find them everywhere in our learning environment. Sharing a book with a child is a wonderful experience. It enables adults and children to have quality time together during a busy day or just before bedtime in a calm environment without the TV or any other distraction. Reading together creates a bond between adults and children and enables children to feel safe, secure and

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Born in Hodthorpe, Hilda moved to the local area just over 50 years ago. Hilda worked as a matron at Butterley House. She had many hobbies and interests which included cake making, dress making and flower arranging. She was married to husband John James McFarlane and leaves daughter Angela Alice, and 3 sons Peter George, Philip and John Charles. Hilda also has 11 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.

Born in Stanton Hill, June lived locally for over 30 years. June was married to husband, Daniel, she has 4 children Daniel, Ty, Tim and Debra along with 6 Grandchildren and 4 Great Grandchildren. In June’s earlier years, she volunteered for the NSPCC and was also on the H.E.L.P committee for 20 years. June also enjoyed crafting, especially making cards. A funeral service took place on Monday 9th August 2021 at Amber Valley Crematorium.

A funeral service took place on Monday 16th August 2021 at Mansfield Crematorium..

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COOKE Lorna Of Tibshelf has sadly passed away on Monday 26th July 2021 at home aged 73 years. Born in Darley Dale, she lived in Tibshelf for over 50 years. Lorna was a teaching assistant for 20 years before her retirement. She enjoyed dancing, Holidays, socializing

HOLMES Marlene Joyce of St Thomas Close, Tibshelf passed away on Monday 16th August 2021 at Chesterfield Royal Hospital aged 79 years. Born in Chesterfield, Marlene lived locally all her life She worked in her younger years at CWS cutting before having her two children and becoming a housewife. Marlene enjoyed going to Bingo, playing domino’s and cards with friends as well as going on Tim Drapers coach trips. Marlene was happily married to Wilfred who sadly passed away in 2014. She leaves her two daughters, Lynn and Jayne and grandson Scott and two great grandchildren. A funeral service took place on Tuesday 7th September 2021 at Brimington Crematorium.. Any donations received in memory of Hilda will be given to ‘Ashgate Hospice’.

with friends and family and spending time with her grandchildren. Lorna was married to Robert who sadly passed away and leaves 2 sons, Ashley, Giles their partners, Laura and Clare and 3 Grandchildren. A funeral service took place on Friday 6th August 2021 at St John the Baptist Church, followed by burial in Tibshelf Cemetery All funeral enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Independent Family Funeral Directors,

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BRAIDLEY June Of Alfreton Road, Pinxton, sadly passed away at Kings Mill Hospital on Tuesday 24th August 2021 aged 85 years. Born in Sutton in Ashfield, Margaret lived locally for 85 years. Margaret worked as a retail assistant at a chemists between 1980 and 1995. She enjoyed listening to music, driving out in Derbyshire and was an associate member of the Tideswell Male Voice Choir. Margaret was married to Colin who sadly passed away in 2011. She leaves her two sons, Paul and David.. A funeral service took place on Wednesday 8th September at St Helen’s Church, Selston followed by cremation at Amber Valley Crematorium. Any donations received in memory of Margaret will be given to ‘Alzheimer’s Association’. All funeral enquiries to Wilkinson Bros Independent Family Funeral Directors,

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Alfreton Male Voice Choir was founded in 1903 and became well respected by a wide spectrum of the community. They performed in, and were very successful at, competition and won many trophies. Over the years fortunes rose and fell but the indomitable spirit of the choir weathered all and continued to entertain; whilst no longer participating in competition, public performance remained at their hearts. In 2009 the choir was granted charitable status and it has become a tradition that we put on a concert each year, in October, to raise funds for charitable causes. Who would have thought, at the beginning of 2020, that the world would change so dramatically and that year’s concert would not take place? In early March Covid 19 made its presence felt and we thought that choir activity would be halted until April. It soon became clear that this was not to be and, showing the determination and resolve that saw them through wars and hard times, the choir quickly mastered the technology to hold us together and, on 16th April, we held our first ‘virtual’ practice. Through the rest of 2020 and 2021 we continued to have our weekly practice on ZOOM and even made recordings, some of which can be found on our web site (www.alfretonmvc. co.uk). July 1st 2021 was our first ‘actual’ practice and

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A version of this month’s walk originally featured in the magazine in 2017, to commemorate the bicentenary of the Pentrich Revolution. The Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution Group published a series of historical walks as part of the bicentenary. The original walk, along with 18 others can all be found on their website (www. pentrichrevolution.org.uk), along with a wealth of historical information and resources.

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On 9th June 1817, over 300 men set out for Nottingham from villages on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border. They thought they were part of a ‘general rising’ to bring down an unjust and oppressive government. Many joined the rising from the Swanwick area, where discontent among miners and framework knitters had already been expressed in Luddite activity and an active Hampden Club.

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2. Passing Hilltop Mink Farm on the right, continue until the track turns sharply. Go straight ahead over the stile, to follow the sign to Golden Valley. Follow the footpath straight ahead down the hillside. Go under the railway line. After 100 yards, right under the 2nd underpass, walk on and cross the railway line. Immediately after the railway line take left fork up through the trees. You pass the Midland Railway and the former Swanwick Station. On your right you see the former Brittain Pit, a colliery opened by the Butterley Company in 1827 and closed in 1946.

3. Past the Brittain Pit turn right at the junction of paths (taking Amber Valley Route 4). After a few yards turn left to go down the hill to cross two stiles in the valley. BEWARE of the barbed wire on the stiles. Enter the field and follow the path up left along the hedge to reach a road. Cross over and continue ahead, alongside a second field to reach the Coach Road. This area is Butterley Park. The rebels came this way visiting houses and farms to take men and weapons. The home of Harriet Marriot was visited and a gun taken. The rebels marched on from here to reach Codnor where the

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4. Turn right along the Coach Road, until you reach the white house. Below you is the tunnel of the Cromford Canal. From the now blocked tunnel in Golden Valley it continued under Butterley Park for 2,996 yards. It is the only tunnel of its kind in the world with an underground wharf, which served the Butterley works. This magnificent feat of engineering was built by the engineer William Jessop in 1794. See the remains of the two airshafts, each surrounded by an earth mound and trees, on the right of the road. Cavalry from the Chesterfield Troop of Yeomanry and pikemen waited here on 10th June to capture fleeing insurgents. Several hid in the Swanwick Woods but were captured and joined 28 others who were taken to Derby Gaol that night.

5. At the junction by the white house go straight ahead to pass the Police Headquarters on the left. Notice it says it is OK for authorised vehicles and pedestrians to go there. Butterley Hall, built in 1790, now within the Police HQ, was the home of Benjamin Outram, founder of the Butterley Iron works. 6. Turn right and walk down the road to Derby Road at Butterley. On your left you will see the site of Butterley Works and the Gatehouse. The main body of marchers stopped here and demanded guns. The manager, Goodwin, and a few special constables refused to open the gates. Too weak to attack the Gatehouse the rebels left empty handed and marched on towards Codnor. Goodwin knew some of the men, who previously worked at Butterley, and gave evidence of their ‘character’ at the Derby Trials. See the plaque on the old Gate House of the works.

7. Turn right along Derby Road. Pass the Midland Railway on your left, then after crossing the railway bridge take a signposted path on your right. Walk alongside a field with Butterley Grange on your left and railway off to the right. Continue ahead on the footpath and continue around Grange Farm. Turn left just before the signs for the Ripley Airfield then cross a stile and bear right up the hill towards The Hayes Conference Centre. There are often cattle here, so please take care, especially with dogs. In 1817 Butterley Grange was the home of John Wright, a partner of Outram and Jessop at the iron works. The Hayes built in 1860, now a conference centre, was a POW camp for German officers in WW2, made famous by the film, ‘The One That Got Away’, of the one successful escape by a German officer. 8. Passing the Conference Centre on your left you come back to Hilltop Mink Farm. Cross back over the stile on your left and turn right to return down the track to the entrance of Hayes Conference Centre and back into Swanwick. The march proved a tragedy for local men fleeing before soldiers at the Gilt Brook. Three from Swanwick and Alfreton were tried in Derby. German Buxton (31), miner, married with a daughter, originally from Wessington, was transported for life. Thomas Bettison (35), miner, transported for 14 years, as was Joseph Rawson (32) framework k n i t t e r . Among those arrested and imprisoned but later released were Anthony Elliott, John Hall and James Robinson.

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1. From St Andrew’s Church walk down the road, The Green, (B6016) following the signs to the Conference Centre. Take the first turning to the right, Hayes Lane, and walk on, crossing the road to go up to the entrance to the Hayes Conference Centre. Here turn left, at the footpath sign, to follow the track up the hill. In 1817 Swanwick was a village of miners or stocking framework knitters who faced poverty and hunger. Reputed to be a centre of Luddite activity, there was much support for reform of Parliament called for by the Hampden Club, meeting at the Queen’s Head in Alfreton. We follow the route taken by men from Swanwick and Alfreton as they marched towards Codnor. They included ‘secret committee’ men, Edward Haslam and James Barnes, who marched at the rear with his gun, William Elliott and George Rawson who had brought bullets they had cast, and Laban Taylor at whose home Jeremiah Brandreth had stayed on 6th June.

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13th as a day to commemorate saints and martyrs. Funnily enough, this didn’t stop the fire festivals and so in the 9th century Pope Gregory moved the festival back to the original time of year, calling the day (1 November) All Saints Day. The day before became known as holy, or hallowed eve, which eventually became Halloween (een being another word for eve). Some of the traditions we see today can be traced back to the original Celtic Samhain, dressing up for example, whilst “trick or treating” may have derived from early Scottish and Irish traditions of going from door to door singing songs for the dead in return for “soul cakes”. Hollowed out and carved turnips with candles inside, known as Jack O’ Lanterns (after a legendary character) originated in Ireland and were taken to the US by immigrants who switched to using readily available (and easier to carve) pumpkins. Would Halloween be such a feature in UK life, particularly for children, without the influence of the US? Personally, I think not - it certainly wasn’t prominent in my childhood… although that was many moons ago! These articles are researched and written by Laura Billingham, a local content writer and author. Laura moved to the Peak District several years ago to pursue her passion for writing. To find out more visit www.landgassociates. co.uk or contact Laura on 07736 351341

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SOUTH NORMANTON ATHLETIC FOOTBALL CLUB Before I start, I hope this article finds you and your loved ones in good health. My last article was written just before our season started, safe to say our first team haven’t had the start we wished for, however we know we’re more than capable of getting things on the right track sooner rather than later. Our reserve side have had a really positive start, Matt, Harry and Sam have got an exciting young squad together with a couple of our new Under 18s squad already making the transition into the senior section - and doing really well with the transition. Ultimately that’s one of our main aims; to provide an opportunity for young local footballers to make that step up into a good level of senior football with their local club. And it’s great to see it coming to fruition even very early on in our project. As a club we want to be at the heart of the community, and it’s great to see our youth

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OLD PINXTON Pinxton Mill, which is an isolated building, is listed in the Domesday Survey of 1086. It was connected to the early village by a track from modern day Toll Bar and which was called Mill Close Lane. However, there were no other buildings in the area which became known as Pinxton Wharf until 1788 when The Reverend D’Ewes Coke sank a coal a coal shaft (Sleights No. 1) and erected two rows of ten terraced house to accommodate incoming miners. Pinxton and Pinxton Warf were two separate communities and were not physically collected until the early 1900’s when Wharf Road was developed and became the commercial centre of the village. The nearest dwelling houses to Pinxton Wharf were in what is now the modern-day Pool Close, previously called New Close Lane. The bottom three blocks were bult prior to 1835, around the same time as the bottom block of the former Kirkstead School.

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As he grew up, George seems to recall a number of people talking about his grandad, Horace Twigg, and telling him the likes of “Ah used to know yer granda. My word George, he werabitoalad. He used to wind us up something rotten.” Those reflections on his grandad’s character, whilst not fully appreciated at the time, struck a chord with George in later years when he remembered some of the stories Horace would tell him. There was one in particular, that George suspected might have been a good example of Horace being, as they might say today, ‘a bit economical with the truth’. It concerned Enoch Tryner, goalkeeper for the Hacademicals. Now, according to Horace, Enoch was recognised as the best to ever to wear the woolly roll-top Hilcote goalkeeper’s jersey. He was a big lad, with arms like a gorilla and hands the size of dinner plates. Although not looking particularly athletic, he had a booming voice, marshalled his defence well and had never been known to drop a ball played into the penalty area. He was also a hero. Read on. At an away game against Pinxton Thistle, Hilcote were winning comfortably when, from immediately behind Enoch’s goal, flames began to appear from the top floor of a three storey building. It was soon ablaze. The referee – they were called umpires in those days – brought the game to a halt and after detailing the Thistle captain to seek assistance from the Wharf Road based Fire Station, asked all men present to fetch buckets (and the like) of water in a desperate attempt to douse the flames.

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