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THE
ECCLESBOURNE VALLEY RAILWAY By Brian Spencer
We are fortunate in having three preserved railways in our part of the North Midlands. Peak Rail, the Midland Railway, Butterley and the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway, follow routes through attractive countryside, but arguably the Ecclesbourne line is through some of the best unspoilt farming countryside in Derbyshire. Part of its route is almost as though it is running through woodland, and there cannot be many places where trains have to slow down behind bouquets of cackling kamikaze pheasants.
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unning between Wirksworth and the Midland Main Line at Duffield, the Ecclesbourne Railway was originally the idea of a group of coal mine owners in the Erewash Valley. Around 1856 they wanted a quicker route to take their coal to the textile mills around Manchester, but as the Midland line only went as far as Rowsley, the alternative was to link up with the Cromford and High Peak Railway. This line already ran across the high limestone moors of the Peak District and the intension was to build a line along the Ecclesbourne Valley. The new line would join the Cromford and High Peak, connecting with it at Ravenstor above Wirksworth and its rapidly growing quarries. The only problem was that the last part of the route, via Ravenstor, meant a steep climb up a 1:27 gradient. No doubt this would be possible (and still is), for lightly laden passenger trains to climb up from Wirksworth, but it would create problems for trains loaded with tons of coal. This was soon proved to be impractical and coal continued to move by canal to be off-loaded at High Peak Junction until road traffic took over. Work began on the 9 miles (14.5km) of track of the Ecclesbourne Valley line from Wirksworth to Duffield with the ceremonial cutting of a sod at Duffield. The line was opened on 1st October 1865, much to the delight of the local businessmen who had thrown their weight behind the Erewash coal owners. Planning the line was not without its problems, which in turn led to the building of what became known as ‘Travis’ folly’. Up and until 1933 if you had travelled along the line you would have seen a much grassed-over 19 8 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
arch viaduct crossing the line. Simply linking fields on either side of the line, it was known officially as Hazelwood Viaduct, but more commonly as ‘Travis’ Folly’. It was built, so folk lore suggests in order for Thomas ‘Canny’ Travis’ cattle to get from one side of the track to the other. The ideal and much cheaper solution would have been to install a level crossing, but the railway company was forced to spend £10,000 building the bridge. Like all folk tales, the story linking the bridge to ‘Canny’ Travis is not exactly true. As the land over which the line ran was owned by the then 7th Duke of Devonshire, it was his agent who insisted on this expense. The argument was that it was necessary in order to allow Travis’ and a neighbouring tenant’s cattle to reach fields on the opposite side of the line from their farms. By 1933 and with a new duke (the 9th) at the helm, arrangements were made to demolish the hardly used bridge. Much to the delight of the huge crowd that had gathered, a detachment of Royal Engineers blew up the 19arch bridge. It was replaced by the more practical level crossing. Travis, whatever his involvement in this crazy scheme, for the rest of his life took advantage of the railway every day to send his milk to the dairy. Very much a rural line throughout its existence, it cannot have paid its way purely from the number of passengers it carried. Most, if not all would join the train at Wirksworth in order to go shopping in Derby, or work. What would be profitable was the amount of tonnage carried from the quarries surrounding the end of the line at Wirksworth. As practically all the quarries were separated from the railway by the Wirksworth to Middleton road, all were connected, either by narrow gauge lines, or even, as in the case
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The Terminus Duffield Station
of Dale Quarry, the massive hole that blighted the town from its situation a matter of less than a quarter of a mile from the town centre; this one was linked to Wirksworth Station’s goods yard through a tunnel by standard gauge. Baileycroft, even closer to the town had a narrow gauge track through another short tunnel. Stonecroft Quarry further up the road had both standard and narrow gauge tracks. The top half of Middlepeak didn’t use the valley line and was joined to the Cromford and High Peak line by standard gauge; however its lower twin did run stone by narrow gauge into the station yard, along with a conveyor built in 1954. Coleshill Quarry half way up the incline sent its stone by trucks on a narrow gauge track. The sleepy branch line was never going to be a commercial success, passenger use was never going to pay its way. Gradually road transport was taking over from rail, especially affecting the morning milk train. No longer was milk laboriously moved in pails from farm to station, to train, to dairy, but simply pumped into a tanker. Stone was easier to send by road and in any case, many of the quarries around Wirksworth were running out of space; the last stone train left the station in December 1969. Passenger services ended in June 1947 – the excuse being to save coal. From some reason the then owners of the line, LMS, possibly thinking forwards to nationalisation a year later, did not officially withdraw passenger services. They continued to publish a time table, but added the word ‘suspended’, and effectively stopped running passenger trains without the need for a public inquiry. Following nationalisation, British Rail saw no need to alter the status quo, and so the line slowly sank into oblivion.
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The goods yard at Wirksworth
Wirksworth Gradually the nine miles of track disappeared beneath brambles and sycamore saplings. This was the state of affairs when Wyvern Rail, the eventual owners of the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway took over the running of the line in 2005. Using mostly volunteer labour who hacked their way through jungles of brambles and overgrown trees; ripping up and restoring rotted sleepers and laying new track, had the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway up and running in 2011. At the end of those six years, the railway was ready to give passengers a nostalgic trip back into the way trains ran fifty years ago. After wandering round the station yard at Wirksworth admiring the collection of rolling stock, some of it undergoing restoration, we found a lovely little miniature railway layout in one of the cabins just off the platform. With time in hand we could enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake before joining the diesel run Railcar. Then with a toot and a slight spinning of wheels we were off into the countryside. Over Gorsey Bank level crossing where all the safety procedure held up the one car on its way into town. Fields dotted with ruminating cows flashed by and as we entered a stretch of trees, a covey of pheasants flew up, almost beneath the wheels of our carriage. Not the best of fliers, they tried to commit suicide by flying 10 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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Stuff ynwood Hall from the SE, from a postcard sent in 1907
STUFFYNWOOD HALL One of my oldest friends is a great enthusiast for huge spiky Gothic Victorian country houses. He thinks Samuel Sander Teulon (‘the good ship Teulon’ as he always calls him) a genius who far outshines Wren or Adam and considers Damien Hurst deserving almost of deification for buying and restoring vast, inchoate and sprawling Toddington Manor in Gloucestershire, designed by Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Lord Sudeley, for himself and built between 1819 and 1840. Derbyshire is (in my view) blessedly free of houses like Toddington, or Somerleyton, or Mentmore. Most of our Jacobean is real Jacobean and Victorian prodigy houses have nearly all been demolished. Readers will recall an account of Snelston Hall last year – architecturally the best of them – of Osmaston Manor the year before, and you can still visit Eckington Hall (albeit seized by Sheffield City Council in 1936) in the NE of the County, which is a classic Hollywood ‘haunted house’ of a building. Locko Park although large, is largely Victorian, but harmoniously designed, spread around a fine early 18th century central block, tactfully incorporated. One particularly lumpish example of eclectic Victorian on a fairly epic scale was Stuff ynwood Hall which stood just south of Shirebrook and a short distance NW of Mansfield Woodhouse. Built in 1857-58, it is in French Chateau style - French chateau on speed – with a huge, chunky tower behind and a lower wing to one side, like the main house, steep-roofed and prickling with skinny chimney stacks and pop-up dormers. The entire composition was wonderfully asymmetrical, largely over two lofty floors (plus attics), faced throughout in muscular rock-face ashlar of Permian Magnesian Limestone, and with a main block of three bays to the left and another three, wrapped round a vast canted bay with its own hipped roof, to the right.
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The Lost Houses
of Derbyshire by Maxwell Craven To the right was another two bays, the end one breaking forward with a loggia-like run of six ground oor windows to the right of the entrance, all much lower than the main block, with a service wing beyond again ending in a little pyramidally hipped roofed pavilion with a largish outshut behind beyond which was a large stable block arranged round a courtyard and a further service court to its east. This extraordinarily top-heavy looking house stood in a modest stretch of parkland running to 51 acres, and the entire estate, despite the proximity of numerous coal mines, was well sequestered. The name of the architect has completely evaded my research, but one might expect the culprit to have been a Nottingham man, or even a Chesterfield one. The estate itself was carved out of the manor of Shirebrook, held by a branch of the Meynell family who took the place as their surname, but sub-let most of it to Alan de Stuff yn around 1270, who was the park-keeper of the hunting park of Pleasley, where the Bec family then had a lodge, long vanished. Their park was stocked and Above: The plan of the house from the 1906 subsidence evaluation. Right: Stuff ynwood Hall from a postcard, possibly from an earlier original by Richard Keene. Below: Sir Arthur Markham Bt MP [Private collection]
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emparkation granted by Edward I in 1288. The family were Bishops successively of St. Davids, Durham and (titular) Jerusalem. This Alan is almost certainly to be identified with Alan son of Hugh de Glapwell and grandson of Simon de Pleasley, facts which we can be fairly sure of thanks to the survival of the charters of the Woolhouse family, later of Glapwell Hall. By the middle of the fourteenth century Robert Stuff yn, probably great grandson, was of Shirebrook, and before long his name had become attached to the landscape, when a portion of his estate was called Stuff ynwood. John son of Hugh Stuff yn (1615-1695) was the first of the family to be styled ‘gent’ instead of ‘yeoman’. His eldest son, John died aged 55 a year after him without leaving issue and his widow married Gilbert Mundy of Allestree Old Hall. His brothers having predeceased him unmarried, the estate passed to John Hacker of Trowell and by various inheritances and sales to Robert Malkin of Chesterfield. Having never seen an inventory for any of the Stuff yn family, I cannot really assess what sort of or size of house they lived in, but suffice it to say that when Charles Paget, a member of an old Ibstock family lately grown affluent through business, mainly in Nottinghamshire, bought the 300 acre estate from Malkin, there was a modest Georgian house on the site of the hall. The Pagets had intermarried with the Hollins family, who had acquired the Pleasley Mills from that supreme entrepreneur, Henry Thornhill (17081790), and thus Charles was keen that his son Joseph should live nearby with a view to taking a hands-on role at the mills.
Joseph married Helen, daughter of Revd. Edward Abney of The Firs, Derby. He was a great friend of W H Fox-Talbot, the photographic pioneer who was married to a Mundy of Markeaton. They
Jacks notes that the house boasted ‘large and well-lit rooms, had a separate billiard room with an adjustable frosted glass roof (to let out the fragrant vapours of the contestants’ Havanas no doubt) and that the house was very early fitted with self-generated electricity, hence the billiard
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The upshot was the building of Stuff ynwood Hall, which was to enjoy a short and really rather unhappy existence. Photographs of the interior have proved elusive, although some may exist in the family papers lodged at the LSE. Fortunately my copy of Leonard Jacks’s account of the country houses of Nottinghamshire (1881) strays over the border here so that he can continue to flatter the Pagets, who also owned Ruddington Grange. He tells us that the house was greatly extended by Joseph Paget from 1873-1880, adding the rear wing, the hulking great tower (complete with skied water tank to improve the domestic economy) and a domestic (Catholic) chapel.
are known to have made Talbotypes of several Derbyshire houses in the late 1840s early 1850s. Abney also encouraged Derby’s pioneering Victorian topographical photographer Richard Keene (1825-1894). Would that we still had any photograph Joseph’s father-in-law might have made of Stuff ynwood!
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The house as it was between c.1970 and 1988: the main block only, photographed when awaiting conversion to a chimerical ‘leisure centre’ [Derbyshire County Council]
(1866-1916), whose stay there ended in 1907, when Joseph Paget’s brother-in-law and heir, Staffordshire lawyer Hubert C Hodgson, took it on, although even before Sir Arthur had moved out a report on mining subsidence had been prepared, the culprit being the newly opened (1895) Shirebrook Colliery. Other alleged disadvantages were cited as drunkenness and lawlessness among the miners, an outbreak of cholera and general pollution. In 1913 the freehold was sold by the trustees of the Pagets and was bought by their company, William Hollins Ltd. as a home for director A R Hollins, who lived there until 1926 when it was again sold with 200 acres remaining for £4,300 most going to one H F Reddish who presumably lived there, although the house disappears from the directories from this period, and it may be that the colliery subsidence had made the house 24 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
uninhabitable. From Reddish it passed to B M Wright who is said to have removed the lead from the roof (or some of them) in the war. Being, as ever, charitable, I would imagine this was his contribution to the war effort. In 1955 the empty house was sold to Richard Scales and Andrew Myers for £3,500 who not only took down the service wing and the tower, but made a good profit, despite inflation in re-selling it in 1972 for £10,000. The partdemolition was achieved on the grounds of subsidence, and the building was never statutorily listed, so there was little to protect it, or encourage the owners to seek compensation from the Coal Board. Only five years later, local people were interested to learn that there was a proposal to use the remaining part of the house (the grandest, it has to be said) as a leisure centre, but the proposers
of the scheme, the purchasers (for £19,000) in 1977 seemed to have a hidden agenda, for they were Cast Developments, a quarrying firm, eyeing up the potential of the site! However, years of applications to the Bolsover District Council were to no avail, and the remaining wing of the house decayed quietly. In 1988 it unceremoniously came down and in 1992 the site was finally sold for eventual redevelopment, one of the last true country houses in the County to suffer this fate. Readers keen to know the saga in more detail should resort to Grant Pearcy’s commendably detailed website www.stuff ynwood.com – it helped me with the details, acting as a corrective to a couple of errors in the account of the house in 3rd edition of The Derbyshire Country House (Ashbourne 2001) Vol. II 311-312.
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Above: The temple of Poseidon or the second temple of Hera, c. 460–450 BCE Below: The picturesque bay at Agropoli. from around 600BC (or if we follow the latest school curriculum BCE), these three well preserved Doric temples are surrounded by the ruins of the ancient town. Walking around the paved roads of this 2500 year old ancient city and examining the old structure of shops, semi circular amphitheatre, and gymnasium reveals so much about the rich history of this settlement. Just touching the 5th century BCE walls is a treat as we tread and feel the history. There are steps to climb up, and look down into what was once someone’s home, communal baths and market squares. Floor mosaics that are cordoned off show signs of a settlement that had style and oozed craftmanship.
Above: The temple of Athena viewed across the historic site. Below: 2500 year old mosaic floor.
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The first temple of Hera, c. 500 BCE is a good plan. Buying the official guide brochure (5 Euros) which I’m still reading and finding how much I actually missed due to our short visit, is a must. Don’t rely on your mobile or tablet to get you round - you won’t see the screen in the blazing sun for a start! Each of the three Greek temples at Paestum has its own story, the oldest being Hera (9x18 columns) followed by Athena (6x13 columns) or Ceres (whichever book you read), and Poseidon or Hera 2 (6x14 columns) again depending on who you listen to. They are a mixed bag of sizes with all the fronts facing the sun and mighty impressive. Originally founded by the Greeks as Poseidonia and later occupied by the Romans who named it Paestum, this is a flat area and easy to get around with views in each direction for miles. The temples aren’t the only points of interest as the area around Paestum features outstandingly long, sandy beaches, which were used for the US army 36th Batallion landings in WW2. It’s a far cry from the swampy, malaria infested area of the 4th/5th century AD with some of the population moving south to Agropoli to escape disease. The temples and surrounding area became ‘lost’ only to be ‘rediscovered’ around the time that Pompei and Herculaneum were excavated. They are still working on excavations on this huge site. Numerous hotels and camp sites are close by with some of the best only a 2km walk away. This is an area rich in history indeed which was emphasised during our visit by one family member exclaiming, ‘They filmed Jason and The Argonauts here’ and, with mobile in hand, proved it. Education is a wonderful thing! Returning to our villa in the evening it was time to fire up the outdoor pizza oven. Dragging a fallen old branch from the wood opposite (causing amusement to all) we soon got the temperature up and, while the rest were busy preparing dough bases, toppings and salad (again!), we enjoyed keeping the fire burning, playing table tennis with the children, enjoying a glass of red wine, listening to the distant dog barking and watching the sun go slowly down over the hill. 30 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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DINKY TOY AIRCRAFT
Last month I penned a few lines about the enduring and collectible die cast model motor vehicles produced by Meccano Limited under the Dinky imprimatur. This I threatened to follow up with an article about the die cast model aircraft the firm also made from the 1930s. I was given my first example as a Christmas present from an aunt - of which in those days I had Bertie Woosterish quantities – in the shape of a model 73c Vickers Viking, a rather portly looking twin engined medium airliner. I had just been taken to see (and had been enthralled by) a film called The Night my Number Came up, about an aircraft or similar size, (actually a Douglas DC3) getting lost and crashing onto a Himalayan mountain valley, so the dear old Viking had to go through a good few re-enactments with its nine year old owner. The other attraction, as I got older, was that before the war, Dinky produced models of types that were virtually extinct, even in the 1950s, and which I deemed much more worthy of acquisition than a modern (then!) boxed 734 Supermarine Swift (about £20/25 with box) or 70a Avro York (about £15-20 unboxed). My interest was quickened when, in 1954 we moved to a house not so very far from Croydon airport, then used exclusively for club flying and where numerous pre-war types could be spotted pottering across the sky from our garden. My first pre-war acquisition was a nice blue 62k Airspeed Envoy - modelled on the King’s personal transport (about £350 retail in box, but £40-50 unboxed and played with, like mine), and things continued, via pocket money and visits to junk shops, until I was sent away to school at ten and finally nose-dived (if you will forgive the pun) when I transferred schools at thirteen.
My most prized possession was a Dinky model 63a/b Mayo Composite – essentially an Empire flying boat called Maia which carried a small mail carrying floatplane called Mercury on its back, and which in real life took off from its host when the latter had to stop for re-fuelling. Being long deleted by Dinky, I found the bottom part second hand but had to wait eighteen months before a rather strange general store in Tain, in the far North of Scotland (where we were staying with friends), astoundingly happened to have Mercury, new, and left unbought on an obscure shelf for twenty years! I have no idea how it became parted from its other half, as both came together in a blue box. The whole thing boxed would set you back £350-450 today, and even without box, like mine, £80-120. Yet one autumn day a year or so later I couldn’t find it, and hunted high and low for this prized possession, including every inch of our fairly large garden; my mother thought I’d developed an unhealthy interest in horticulture! Some years later it emerged that mama, who each year sent toys to the local orphanage, had found it in 34 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
an unlikely place, assumed whilst I was away at school, that I had tired of it, and consigned it to the orphans. One I particularly loved was the DH 91 Albatross, a pre-war wooden four-engined airliner of great beauty which I had never seen in the flesh (none survived the war) and managed to acquire in blue, along with a DH88 Comet racer in silver. The series began in 1934 and ran through the war to some extent, some of the military types being dubbed ‘two seat fighter’ and ‘heavy bomber’ to confuse enemy spies. A Messerschmitt 110, masquerading as ‘twin engine fighter’ with props missing went through a general sale at Bamfords for £10 recently. My model 62a Spitfire was boxed and sold specially to raise money for the wartime Spitfire fund – not to be confused with a much more authentic looking Spitfire which was issued as a revival in the later 1970s. By the time I got mine (having been born a little too late) there was no box - not that I’d have kept it! The last models were issued around 1973 with no. 731, a Jaguar fighter with – unheard of in a Dinky – a retractable undercarriage (mint in box about £40). The most expensive examples which I have come across include an Avro Vulcan estimated at £500-700 and a pre-war model 60e Dewoitine D.500 open cockpit fighter (one of the range only sold in France) good condition but no box, a snip at £600. Coming closer to our times, even a 1960s Sud Caravelle in Air France livery is likely to set you back £120. Buying in auction would be the best bet for anyone intending to collect
DINKY TOY AIRCRAFT these miniature masterpieces in decent condition. For instance, a second issue Dinky 60 set of six was sold for £800 against an estimate of £1,000 to 1,300, for which you got, in pristine condition, a 60a Armstrong Whitworth Argosy (coyly called ‘Imperial Airways airliner’), 60b DH 85 Leopard Moth, 60c Percival Gull, 60d ‘Low wing Monoplane’ (a Boeing P-26?), 60e General Aircraft Monospar and 60f Cierva C.30 autogiro – all rare and early examples, and no metal fatigue, no knocks, about £130 per plane, which is actually not bad for any of these. Likewise, a box of mixed period (including ‘revival’ (post 1973) ones, all well played with, sold at Bamfords recently for £22. Indeed, Spitfires and Hurricanes in silver rather than camouflage and small post war fighters like Gloster Meteor IIIs and P-33 Shooting Stars (which lacked the fragile red tin propellors of the former pair) can be had almost for pence if you look around. And the attraction is that you get some completely forgotten aircraft types, like the Bristol 173 twin rotor helicopter of 1952 (£30-40), which never really got into serious production, perhaps because on its initial flight on 3 January 1952, it was found it tended to fly backwards! After 1973 the firm, taken over as described last month, made more modern types with glazed cockpits/windows, retractable undercarriages and other refinements. They also produced Thunderbirds craft and other TV spin-offs. To me, they are less interesting but, with their (often elaborate) boxes, they can still set you back a few bob, nevertheless!
Pictures; Opposite page: Airspeed Envoy, King’s Flight This page: From the top, left to right: Dinky 749 Avro Vulcan. Dewoitine D.500. Mayo Composite with box. My Vickers Viking. DH91 Albatross Imperial Airways airliner. Me 110 (with propellors – these tended to become permanently detached rather easily!). Supermarine Swift. Bristol 173 helicopter. WW2 Armstrong Whitworth Whitley bomber (as flown by Leonard Cheshire VC) with box, £150. No. 60 set, mint in box [Vectis Auctions]
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Where Our Forebears Trod A look at some of our most ancient thoroughfares by Maxwell Craven
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The proof also lies in the antiquity of our road network, for whilst some roads have long fallen into desuetude and become green lanes, hedgerows or crop marks, many ancient trackways are still in use.
When I first worked at Derby Museum I was always struck by the lack of a Roman road going due south from Derby’s Roman predecessor, Derventio (now Little Chester). There was Ryknield Street going from, NE to SW via Little Chester, Long Lane running due west, and a road running SE across Derby’s former racecourse towards Sawley and across the Trent to join the Fosse Way at Vernemetum (Willoughby-on-theWolds, Leicestershire). But what if you wanted to go to London? It seemed to me absurd to go either via Letocetum (Lichfield) or Willoughby-on-the-Wolds. Looking through the finds records at the Museum (then held on index cards) during research we were doing jointly with the (now long defunct) County Museum Service on Swarkestone Bridge, it became apparent that this so-called Medieval causeway and 18th century bridge went back a lot further. Numerous finds of dropped low-value Roman coins had been noted along its course, for instance, along with Iron Age artefacts northwards along the road to Derby. Clearly the crossing at Swarkestrone had a much longer pedigree.
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Illustrations on these 2 pages clockwise from top right: St Peter’s Street, Derby looking towards the north. The corner of Osmaston Road and Wilmot Street, Derby looking towards the Cathedral. Queen Street looking north past the Cathedral. Photographed by Richard Keene 1867. Iron Gate today looking south. A map of the Roman roads and the trackway that passed through the City.
I risked publishing this idea in 1988, and notice it has entered archaeological orthodoxy now, thanks to a recent report of the archaeology of Derby’s western inner suburbs.
between groups to ply their trades. When the Romans came, they simply took the route over, probably made improvements and used it to connect Derventio to Ratae and thence the south and Londinium.
What we have is an Iron Age trackway which long pre-dated Derby to allow the inhabitants of the tribal area of the Corieltauvi (whose Roman period capital was Ratae (Leicester) to reach the Trent and follow the Derwent Valley north in the territory of the Brigantes. Iron Age it may have been, but artisans such as smiths and potters had to move around
The crossing at Swarkestone would have been on a substantial bed of brushwood and withies, just like the tracks of the same vintage exposed on the Somerset Levels in the 1980s, with a ford over the wide part of the Trent, then positioned further south than today. There after the road probably ran as today, east then north to Chellaston, avoiding the Bronze
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Age burial site at Swarkestone Lowes, which would probably have been recognised as sacred even in the Iron Age. This Iron Age or prehistoric trackway then entered Derby along the line of the Osmaston Road and ran right through the site of the present city long before anyone lived on its site, for the present city was only founded in around 921 as a Saxon burh or defended settlement, the only previous habitation being the seventh century minster church of St. Alkmund and the small enclave surrounding it.
If one climbs the 172 feet of the cathedral tower, and looks south one can see this ancient trackway quite clearly from the end of Queen Street to well beyond The Spot; it really is most impressive seen like that. On the ground, one follows it down Osmaston Road (which has had some Victorian kinks put in along its course further out to accommodate a private estate and railway installations) to The Spot, where London Road, only instituted as a turnpike in the early 18th century, joins. Previous to its creation one reached London via CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 47
King Street, Derby 1914 Swarkestone Bridge as indeed Bonnie Prince Charlie planned to do in December 1745. From The Spot (an 18th century name) one descends St. Peter’s Street on the alignment, which originally must have crossed the Markeaton Brook on a ford at the bottom, then along Corn Market (widened in the early Middle Ages to make room for the marketing of grains), up Rotten Row, the west edge of what later (c. 1100) became the Market Place, up Iron Gate and along Queen Street (part of King Street, renamed after 1760), King Street, Darley Lane and thence along Darley Grove. Its course across Darley Park (landscaped by William Emes 1777-78) shows up as a ridge or agger, beyond which it leaves the northern edge of Derby to follow the Derwent Valley. How much of it can be traced thence to the Peak is not really researched, but I am sure it will be done in time. This route, being pre-Roman in origin, lacks the straightness of a course worked out by a Roman agrimensor (surveyor), but it does have directness, although even that was affected by later developments. When the minster church of St. Alkmund with its six canons was established, some time after the evangelisation of the Kingdom of Mercia which commenced after 655, the church and the canons’ houses and workshops which served it were placed on the line of the old trackway, which was without doubt in use then, for it was kinked around the tiny enclave to the west before regaining the old alignment and continuing northwards. The section from Darley Lane fell out of use in the 1750s when the road to Manchester was a turnpike, and the modern Duffield Road was pitched as a result, hence Robert Holden was able to empark the land to the south of his seat at Darley Hall with impunity once the mood took him a couple of decades later. Next time you wander down St. Peter’s Street, wondering at the sheer awfulness of Intu, or looking for post-Christmas bargains, remember that you are walking along a road that began life as a long-distance trackway more than two thousand years ago. 48 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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I always give this little nugget of popular advice, at the beginning of January start a “Gardening Diary” to record everything that you are planting, what varieties you have chosen, what the weather was like on that day etc. etc. It`s a really helpful tool for next year and beyond.
Looking forward to the year ahead, there are lots of new varieties of plants that will be coming out including summer bedding, shrubs, climbers and trees to look out for in your local plant nursery or garden centre. From a personal point of view, I can’t wait for the gardening season to kick off again because now I have an allotment that I can share with Lewis my son, so I know where I’m going to spend most of my weekends.
General Garden Maintenance • Spread a thick layer of home made or nursery bought multi-purpose compost around newly planted trees, shrubs or hedges as this will keep out frost that will kill young roots. • Check evergreen shrubs for damage from winter weather. • Clear away old leaves in borders before spring bulbs start to appear. • Dig over gaps in borders and remove old flower spikes from herbaceous borders. • Top up bird baths with fresh water and de-frost with warm water on frosty days.
• Check on bird feeders to see if they are getting empty. • Last chance to plant bare root hedging i.e. Hawthorn, Beech and Privet.
In the Allotment or Vegetable Patch • Keep harvesting root vegetables including parsnips and leeks. • Prepare ground ready for onion and shallot sets and seed potatoes. • Cover rhubarb clumps with a bucket or special ‘forcer’ for early stems. • Prune red and white currant, shortening side shoots to a single bud. • Put newly potted strawberry plants under the protection of cloches or in a greenhouse for early crops. • Prune apple and pear trees for congested, badly damaged or diseased branches, seal cuts with a suitable pruning compound. • Cut down autumn-fruiting raspberry canes to soil level.
In the Greenhouse • Sterilise staging and frames with a garden disinfectant – don’t do it when there’s a chance of frost. • Many varieties of herbs can be sown now – check in garden centres and plant nurseries for available varieties. • Check any tender over-wintering plants stored in the greenhouse for greenfly and other pests. • Start to water sparingly tender fuchsias (weather permitting).
Some of the best winter interest plants at the moment are: Skimmia Japonica Rubella : This plant starts looking good around the end of September and still looks amazing now. An excellent evergreen shrub that looks its best when the flowers are in bud. The deep crimson flower buds start from late autumn to late winter when they open to creamy white flowers. This versatile shrub likes a part shade to full shade position in the garden and well drained to heavy clay, slightly acidic soil. Compact growing and suitable for containers or borders this is a must for every garden. The Royal Horticultural Society has given it a prestigious Award of Garden Merit (AGM).
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Cornus Sanguinea Midwinter Fire : There are many Cornus’ or “Dogwoods” but this is a favourite of mine and one I recommended in my Radio Derby feature with Andy Potter in December last year. This shrub looks best during winter when it has lost all of its leaves to expose brightly coloured stems of yellow, orange and red followed in spring by lush light green leaves. Unlike other “Dogwood” this compact growing shrub is ideal for a container or border, it likes a light shade to full shade, position in light to heavy soils. Please note, some times this variety is labelled as Cornus Winter Flame.
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or more than 17 years he was Sir David Jason’s moustachioed sidekick on the immensely popular television series A Touch Of Frost.
It proved to be a doubleedged sword for John Lyons – he is often recognised as Detective Sergeant George Toolan and it has limited his subsequent TV appearances. But the small screen’s loss is the East Midlands’ gain. In the past two years John has appeared in three plays which have been seen here and he is currently rehearsing a farce to be performed in Chesterfield which will show another side to this indisputably talented actor.
He took the lead role in Father Brown – The Curse Of The Invisible Man, an adaptation of two G K Chesterton mysteries by John Goodrum of Derbyshire-based Rumpus Theatre Company, before John’s wife Karen Henson of Tabs productions snapped up John Lyons to play two roles: Inspector Hubbard in Frederick Knott’s Dial M For Murder and the judge in Marie Lloyd And The Music Hall Murder, both in the 2017 Classic Thriller Season in Nottingham. The two Johns, Lyons and Goodrum, met when John Lyons was appearing in The Mousetrap in the West End. The distinguished actor has appeared in Agatha Christie’s legendary play on three separate occasions, clocking up no fewer than 1,200 performances as Major Metcalfe. John Goodrum had written a play called The Ripper Files about Jack the Ripper which was going on tour. He thought the other John would be ideal to play the inspector, so he left a script at the stage door.
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John Lyons read the play and liked it: “It had a very good twist at the end which I didn’t see coming. I said to John I’d like to do it, so we met and chatted about it. I started to learn the script but then, as happens all the time in this business, an offer came along of another job and John very kindly let me out of The Ripper Files.” Two-and-a-half years later John Goodrum called the other John again and asked if he would be interested in playing Father Brown. The character was popular at the time on BBC Television. John Lyons agreed because he felt he owed the other John a favour. “That was a slight mistake because at that time the play hadn’t been written and I didn’t know how big the part was. So when I got the script for Father Brown it was 69 pages long and my character was on 65 of them! “Anyway, I thought I couldn’t let him down twice so I’d better try to learn it. It took me four months but I got it in the end and I enjoyed it tremendously.” John Lyons says he looks forward to working with both John Goodrum and Karen Henson. “They’re very easy to get on with. There are no great histrionics or shouting or screaming. It’s almost like a family business. They enjoy what they’re doing and it passes over to you.
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“When we do tours and they give me parts that are very taxing with a lot of dialogue, they work it out so that we never do a full week. We do about four days and then I get three days off to get my breath back.”
John Lyons who is still working hard at the age of 74 will take the role of Granddad in Ray Cooney’s Caught In The Net which opens later this month at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield before touring.
End musicals; about 500 television appearances including Play For Today, Upstairs Downstairs, The Sweeney, Minder, On The Buses and Man About The House; 50 TV commercials; and numerous theatrical productions.
He should be refreshed after having a break over Christmas instead of appearing in pantomime as he has done for a number of years. He was offered the role of Captain Hook in Peter Pan but turned it down.
“I wanted to have a long career playing lots of different parts. And I’m glad to say it’s worked out that way because I’ve near enough covered almost everything you can do. The only thing I haven’t really conquered is radio and voiceovers.”
“I did it ten years ago which was okay. But I think Captain Hook is physically a little too much for me – the fencing that he has to do with Peter Pan and the running around. “Panto is hard work but fun. I hope if I keep my health, strength and faculties together there’s probably another one or two pantos left in me.” John Lyons was born on 14 September 1943 in Whitechapel. He is a true Cockney, born within earshot of the bells of St Mary-le-Bow Church, Cheapside – but they were not chiming on the night he was born because the Luftwaffe were dropping bombs on the capital. When he was 17 he played Sunday morning football along with thousands of others on Hackney Marshes – one of the largest areas of common land in London. In the same team was a journalist who asked John if he had thought about becoming an actor. The journalist told John about a new drama school, East 15, which was just about to open. John rang up, got an audition and to his great surprise as he had never been on stage he was accepted.
The distinguished actor has appeared in Agatha Christie’s legendary play The Mousetrap on three separate occasions “At the beginning I thought ‘this is rubbish – I don’t want to be an actor’. But at the end of the three-year course I enjoyed it so much I thought I could be quite good at it and make a career of it.” John left drama school on a Friday and three days later he started filming Catch Hand, a BBC drama series about the adventures of two building workers, which also featured Anthony Booth – later to star in Till Death Us Do Part. John has worked almost constantly since then, appearing in four West
That seems ironic after John had one-to-one tuition every morning when he was at drama school to eradicate his Cockney accent. Now his deep, mellifluous voice is one of the reasons he is able to play everything from policemen to judges. His most famous role was, of course, George Toolan in A Touch Of Frost. He appeared in all but a couple of the 40-odd Frost episodes, missing them only because he was contracted to do other work. “It turned into the best job I’ve ever had, the most fun and the most enjoyable. That really was all down to Sir David Jason. As with Rumpus, he made it fun to do. He made it a pleasure to go to work. “A Touch Of Frost was tremendous. And it’s helped my career. I ride on the back of it I suppose – in a nice way.” Over the past six years John has added another line to his extensive CV: guest speaker on board P&O cruise ships. He talks to passengers about his life and career. He has been on ships bound for Canada, the Mediterranean, Australia and San Francisco. A bonus for him is that his wife of more than 50 years Ann is able to accompany him. He is hoping for more cruises in 2018 as well as further jobs with Rumpus or Tabs. But so far there is not much in the pages of his new diary. “There’s something quite nice about not knowing what your next job is, where it’s going to be and who it’s going to be with. I know it may sound daft but I quite like that uncertainty. Since I was 17 I’ve never had a proper job.” Anyone familiar with John Lyons’ work will be grateful for that as he has become one of the finest jobbing actors this country has produced for generations. Ray Cooney’s farce Caught In The Net featuring John Lyons can be seen at the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield from 16 until 20 January.
John Lyons, Chris Sheridan and David Osmond in Dial M for Murder.
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An Alpine-style walk around Matlock Bath
On a sunny weekend today’s Matlock Bath is popular with middle-aged motorcyclists whose expensive mounts line the riverside frontage. They are just the modern manifestation of the visitors who come to enjoy the local scenery. As far back as the Georgian era, people have come to admire the unique setting of this small village: at first it was only visited by those who could afford the expense of horse-drawn transport, but when the railway came, and with it cheaper transport, it opened up the place for those with lighter purses. Since then the coming of the motor car has spread the net and people flock from all over the north Midlands for a day out in this mini-holiday resort.
Early visitors likened Matlock Bath to an alpine resort, and that cannot be far from the truth. Romantic poet Lord Byron described Matlock Bath as; ‘There are places in Derbyshire rivalling Switzerland and Greece’. A bit far fetched, but with the vertical limestone crag of High Tor and its continuing ridge opposite the main part of the village, the aspect is not far removed from some alpine village – admittedly not quite as high, but nevertheless the looks are there. The ambience is continued with the cable car up to the Heights of Abraham and its terraced woodland walks. There’s even a tiny chapel, St John’s, about half way between Matlock and Matlock Bath that could easily be mistaken for a miniature Alpine Schloss. Probably the closest to a truly alpine footpath is the path along what is known as ‘Giddy Edge’. This path, complete with a metal handrail crosses the upper face of High Tor and can truly be compared – again, in a small way, to Via Ferrate the iron ladders that criss-cross the Dolomites
and other limestone mountains of the Alps. This walk uses many of the high-level and riverside paths that wander high and low around the village. Starting at Matlock Bath railway station the walk climbs up the side of High Tor into the outskirts of Snitterton. This linear satellite village follows what was once the only road south from Matlock until the line of the A6 was developed. Entering woodland, the path climbs to the summit of High Tor, where the exciting prospect of the Giddy Edge path begins its descent back into Matlock Bath. Here if you want, a truly alpine extension to the walk can be made by taking the cable car to the top of the Heights of Abraham and enjoy its woodland walks. (Visit www.heightsofabraham.com for opening times) Continuing towards the riverside section of the walk, a footpath leaving the car park climbs to the ridge-top continuation of High Tor, before dropping down to the river by a series of well-laid steps. A left turn at the river will follow the wooded path called ‘Lovers’
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While the Giddy Edge section of the walk has a well-placed handrail, it should be approached with great care and certainly not in wet or icy conditions. For anyone not wishing to use the Giddy Edge path, there is an alternative route bearing left at the start of the edge path which crosses the highest point of High Tor. Children and dogs must be under close scrutiny at all times,
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Walk’ until it reaches a modern footbridge. Over this are the Riverside Gardens and beyond is the Pavilion, the restored replica of an alpine Kursall, or spa. The fascinating Peak District Lead Mining Museum is here together with a friendly café dispensing home-made food. There are many alternatives for refreshments along the roadside, ranging from fish and chips to several excellent restaurants and pubs.
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• Take the side road parallel to both the river and railway line, away from the car park. • Turn right and go under the railway, uphill towards the entrance to the bottom station of the Heights of Abraham cable car. • Do not bear left to the cable car entrance, but continue ahead and through a squeezer stile next to a metal gate. • Climb the roughly surfaced track until it reaches an unmade road lined with houses. • Turn left on this road and go through a gate opening on to a surfaced track leading into woodland. • The track climbs steadily, bearing right in its upper reaches. • Where the track on leaving the trees bears left, continue ahead until it peters out. (The track going left is heading for a radio mast). The woodland is part of the High Tor Recreation Grounds. There are several roofless old mines around the summit, often bearing fanciful names such as ‘Fern Cave’ or ‘Roman Cave’, but none are quite so ancient. It was once possible to enter the mines for self-exploration, but an over-cautious council has closed them off on Health and Safety grounds. There was once a café on the summit of High Tor, but it mysteriously burned down within a few days of its closure. • Swing round to the left away from the mast compound and make for the summit of High Tor to admire the view. N.B. There is no barrier at the summit, so keep well away from the edge – there is a 190 foot drop straight down the tor face. • Bear left away from the summit rocks and follow the signpost towards Giddy Edge, making use of the iron handrails as necessary. N.B. If it’s icy, raining or if you do not have a head for heights, bear left away from the start of the Giddy Edge path and go over the highest point of High Tor. This path joins the Giddy Edge path on the far side of the summit.
• Continue on the edge path, using a well-placed seat for a rest along the way. • At the far end, join a rough path zig-zagging steeply downhill through mature woodland. • Go to the left and then right around the perimeter fence of the cable car. Go under the railway bridge and turn left on to a side road. If you wish to extend the walk, then the cable car bottom station is conveniently close at hand. The ticket also gives access to woodland walks and two well-appointed mines (guided) at the summit. There is also a café and gift shop. • Walk through the station car park and go to the right on to a path leaving from near the coach parking bays. • Follow the path uphill until it reaches a stepped-path going left. • Follow the path uphill and then along the ridge until it reaches another stepped-path descending right. • Go down these steps and on reaching the riverside path (Lovers’ Walk), turn left and walk downstream, past an over-arching metal bridge. • Walk on until the path reaches a second, more modern bridge. There was once a small menagerie and a handdrawn ferry opposite what is now a rowing boat hire
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jetty. • Cross the bridge and turn right to pass through Riverside Gardens and the pond full of golden carp. • Make your way up to the Pavilion and the main road. • Turn right along the road, following it past the famous fish pond (currently devoid of fish) and then past the old ( Jubilee) bridge. Divert through the memorial garden. • Turn right beside the Midland Hotel and follow Station Road back to the car park. USEFUL INFORMATION A moderate walk of 3 miles (4.8km) with one 190ft (58m) climb on well-maintained woodland and riverside paths. Great care should be taken on the ‘Giddy Edge’ section where children and dogs must be kept under careful control. Not suitable in wet or icy weather. But see alternative. Recommended map: Ordnance Survey 1:25000 Outdoor Leisure Sheet 24. The Peak District, White Peak Area. Refreshments in and around Matlock Bath. Public Transport. Rail or bus from Derby. (Plus buses from Ripley or Matlock). Car parking in Matlock Bath station yard.
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Diary of events Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water. December 2017 was a great walk, seeing our regular visitor, the Great Northern Diver, plus a pair of Goldeneye and Siskin, plus Redwing.. some of the many nice winter visitors. Come for a crisp 2-hour walk which is always held on the first Sunday of EVERY month. Book by contacting Carsington or for more information, 01629 540696 or just drop in to reception. Warm clothes and binoculars essential!! Future dates…Sunday 4th February; 4th March; 1st April plus 8th April. Happy Birding.” Breadsall Memorial Hall Brookside Road, Breadsall DE21 5LF Derbyshire Constabulary Male Voice Choir 19th January 2018, 7.30pm. Bar open 7 pm. Tickets £8. Phone 01332 831577 or 831564 Come along and enjoy a relaxed evening of music. Derby RSPB 10th January at 7:30pm Ashley Grove presents a talk entitled “Shetland to Sicily - The birds of the British Isles”. Meeting at The Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.00, for non-members £2.50 and juniors £1.00. Also: 21 January. Free birdwatching walk at DWT Witches Oak Water. Meet at 9.30 am. The entrance is from the westbound carriageway of the A50. After junction 1 take the slip road signposted Shardlow Gravel Pit (quarry traffic only) and park by the gate. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Pentrich Historical Society Pentrich Historical Society meet on the third Tuesday of each month from September to June inclusive at Pentrich Village Hall from 7.15 pm. £3 with light refreshments. Talks on various historical subjects. Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 16th January. Flower demonstration by Don Billington Entitled ”Something Special”. 7pm for 7.30 pm at the Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members £3.00. Non- members £7.00 For further details telephone 01283 702601 Derby French Circle 19 January: The Theatre of the Absurd and Coronation Street. A talk by Tony Callen (after the AGM) (2 February: History of the Isere region. A talk by Thierry Viennois.) Students £3 and Visitors £7 per meeting, full season membership £40. Come and join us, all levels of French spoken. Venue: Fraser Hall, Leylands Retail Estate, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1AY. Fortnightly on Fridays from 7.15pm. www.derbyfrenchcircle.org.uk Darley Abbey Historical Group 66 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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The British Comedy Award nominee and star of Live At The Apollo and 8 Out Of 10 Cats is embarking on a nationwide tour to complain about the state of the world and offer no solutions. Since his last show he has become a husband and father, seen the UK vote to leave the EU and watched the rise of Donald Trump, all of which leaves him asking one question, why does it seem that no one else alive can correctly load a dishwasher? See what Jon Richardson can do with words when he has more than thirty seconds to work with. Or should that be “with which to work”? Best known as team captain on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown’, Jon has been massively in demand for television and radio appearances including; 'Have I Got News For You’ (BBC ONE), ‘Live At The Apollo’ (BBC ONE).
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Dave Spikey: Juggling on a Motorbike
Derby Theatre Friday 23 February 2018 Dave had been working in the NHS for 19 years as a Biomedical Scientist when in 1987 someone uttered the immortal words, “You’re really funny, you should be a comedian” and for some reason, he took them seriously!! Only a few short months later he was crowned the winner of the national talent show “Stairway to the Stars”. Larry Grayson, one of the judges, told him that it was a close run thing on the night but what clinched the award for Dave was his routine about a juggler on a motorbike. Fast forward 13 years (Is that possible?) to Friday 13th October 2000 , the day Dave switched off his microscope for good and found himself, the following Monday, sitting on rain swept local car park dressed as a giant berry!! So now in 2017 he celebrates the 30th anniversary of his comedy career. In this show he will look back on his remarkable life and his incredible journey from working class lad to Chief Biomedical Scientist to much loved comedy performer and writer via Phoenix Nights, Eight out of Ten Cats, Bullseye, Dead Man Weds, Magnolia, The Royal Variety Show, Parkinson and many more. He often reflects that maybe none of this would have happened and he might still be looking down his microscope today if it wasn’t for the juggler on the motorbike.
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Success in Business
Kim Beresford Ashover Brewery There must be thousands of men – and no doubt a good number of women too – who envy Kim Beresford. As well as running his own brewery, he has a string of awardwinning pubs to his name. Ashover Brewery produces about 10,000 pints a week and its beer goes right across the country.
But don’t think running a brewery is a barrel of laughs. Kim, who readily gave up his time to talk about how he turned his hobby into a business, was interrupted on more than one occasion and admitted it was hard work. “I don’t think I’ve ever worked as hard in my life as I do now. Although running a pub was very hard, this is like running a pub only looking after lots of other people as well.” He’s not even sure how many people work for Ashover Brewery. He counts them up on both hands but forgets to include his wife Jackie who does some accounting work for the company. And the figure doesn’t include his pubs which employ their own staff. “I absolutely love it,” says Kim. “I’ve said many times that I actually haven’t got a job. I don’t go to work. I get up in the morning and I go and do something I love. I get a real sense of job satisfaction from it. “But there are bad days and there are hard days. People might think it’s all roses but they don’t see all the blood, sweat, tears and the pain.” So how did Kim get to this position? He says the idea for the brewery started in his head in the early 1980s when he decided it would be a good idea to brew his own beer. Lots of people were doing it at that time, using kits they bought from high-street shops.
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“It was rubbish!” says Kim. “I thought there’s got to be a better way than this and I started doing some research. Me being the type of person I am, I need to know all the ins and outs of everything. I bought books on the subject and learned how to brew proper full mash beer.” Many friends who tried Kim’s products refused to believe he had brewed them at home. But it wasn’t until Kim was about 40 when he had a major fall-out with his father that Kim took the first step on the beer ladder. After leaving school he had gone to catering college to learn to be a chef – “not because I wanted to cook but because I thought there’d be lots of girls there.” A career in the catering trade beckoned. At that time his father formed a business manufacturing fibreglass products. He and Kim fell
“...not because I wanted to cook but because I thought there’d be lots of girls there.”
out a lot – “we used to fight like cat and dog. I helped him build that business up to a substantial size. Then we had a major fallout and I left.” Kim then went back to work for a food processing company where he had done an apprenticeship. After five years he rose to the position of operations manager and went on various courses to learn accounting, budgeting, communications and man management. Again he returned to work for his father only for them to have another huge disagreement. It was while he was feeling fed up that he went for a pint at the Dead Poets Inn at Holbrook which was run by his friend David Brown. Eventually he persuaded Kim to work for him and manage the cellar and bar there with his son James. That was Kim’s first venture into the pub trade. “It was THE best place in Derbyshire if you wanted to learn how to run a cask cellar well.” Kim and Jackie bought their own pub, the Old Poets’ Corner at Ashover, in 2004 and threw themselves into it. “It was seven days a week, 24/7, hard graft. We used to have a chiropodist who came every fortnight to sort our feet out – they were in a state because we were on them all the time!” He had the idea of putting a brewery into the pub – “it just seemed like a nice, quirky thing to do and would be an attraction”. When the cottage next door came up for sale, the couple had no hesitation in buying it. Kim and a drinking friend Roy Shorrock, who was due to retire from a bank, went into business together. With a glint in his eye, Kim describes Roy as “almost a professional drinker”. Roy found some kit on eBay and drove to Scotland to check it out. They bought it and brewing started in January 2007. “The idea was just to brew four or five core beers of a consistently good quality and we would put them on in the pub. It went very well and in fact we started brewing beer for friends of ours who ran pubs in the surrounding area. “At that point it became apparent that we probably needed someone else to help us in the brewery. Roy’s daughter Janine – if you chopped her in half she would have real ale written down the middle of her – decided she would quite happily chuck in her job and become a full-time brewer for us. To this day Janine is our head brewer and very good at it she is too.” Kim and Jackie then took on The Poet and Castle at Codnor. They were continuing to brew beer and had to tell other pubs they couldn’t supply them. “We hadn’t really set it up to make money. We resisted the temptation to grow the brewery because we wanted to keep it nice and small. Even today we’re very precious about that.”
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Success in Business The bulk of the beer is caskconditioned, real ale although the company is starting to bottle more beer. Kim would also like to open a shop to sell bottled beers.
Two years ago Ashover Brewery moved to a new home, a unit tucked away on an industrial estate at Clay Cross. “It was absolutely the right time for us so we took it,” says Kim. “Actually we came in here and thought ‘wow, isn’t it great that we’ve got all this room’. Now we’re falling over ourselves again and haven’t got room to swing a cat. We actively go out now selling although not very much. We’re still not having to work too hard at selling beer.” After running The Poet and Castle for nine years, Kim and Jackie decided to let it go. They now have the Tupton Tap, the closest pub to the brewery; the Black Swan at Crich; a micro pub in Matlock, Stanley’s Ale House; and they’ve still got the Old Poets’ Corner at Ashover which brews beer a couple of times a week. It was runner-up in Britain’s best local pub competition in 2011 and was voted national cider pub of the year in 2006. Now Ashover Brewery produces about 10,000 pints a week and its beer goes right across the country. The bulk of the beer is cask-conditioned, real ale, although the company is starting to bottle more beer. Future plans include producing keg beer for sale to town-centre bars and sports clubs. Kim would also like to open a shop to sell bottled beers. And the company may have to address what to do about the Clay Cross site if it becomes too small. Kim puts his success in the brewing trade down to a number of factors: “Being in the right place at the right time and doing the right thing; being a workaholic which my wife will tell you I definitely am; having an
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understanding of the business and having the right skillset. “My job description has changed from being a cellarman and a chef to a man who sorts everybody else’s problems out. “We certainly get a good response to our beer and people seem to like the style of pub we do because we do traditional pubs with open fires and wooden floors – how it used to be. “One of the criteria for people who work here is they need to care about beer and the industry. It’s infectious. They get excited about things and work really hard to make things happen which is great. We’ve got a great team.” No doubt an increasing number of people who drink Ashover Brewery’s products will be raising a glass to Kim Beresford and his staff.
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Manuel Delaflor is a Visual Artist, currently living in Chesterfield. He has won several contests, and has exhibited his work in various countries in Europe and the Americas. Currently, he is working on a project of portraits with the Mexican Embassy in the UK and giving workshops in the Peak District area and London. To know more or book an appointment write to: manuel@manueldelaflor.com .
Part Three: The Rules of Composition by: Manuel Delaflor
A fantastic photograph is the result of many factors that happen to work together in harmony. One of such factors is, of course, the camera, but contrary to the general opinion, it is not a good camera that captures “good photos”, the best camera in the world will capture garbage if we point it at garbage. It would be pretty detailed garbage, but still, garbage. And what I’m wanting to say here is simple, “the camera is just ONE of the necessary components required to create compelling images, and it is not the most important one”. A bad photographer with a fantastic camera will take, at best, average photos, while a toy camera in the hands of a professional will produce very interesting and creative photography. Why is this the case? Because it matters more how we use the tool that the tool itself. And here is where our subject for this months article comes in handy. At one point, we have all read about some rules, either online, in a workshop, or any other source, and these are supposed to be the grammar of photography, or something like this. It is not that simple, as photography per se is not a language in the regular sense of the word, it is certainly a vehicle that can be used to communicate things (emotions, memories) but it doesn’t have proper syntax, verbs and other components. For me, the most important thing to remember, right
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before starting taking photos, is that everything in the frame is MY responsibility. I cannot control what happens in the world (to a great extent), even when I can control some things, like the shape of the shadows using studio flashes. And so, before shooting, my best recommendation for you is to observe, and change your position or perspective until the whole frame communicates what you want, until it is in your creative control. Remember that you have other tools at hand, for example, if you can’t get any closer to your subject, and your lenses do not have enough zoom, you can always crop the photo later on your computer or mobile phone. Another important point is to have a very clear idea of what we are going to capture, and to look for strong visual elements when framing a shot. A last point I want to be clear about, before entering in to the details of some of the most widely used rules, is that the best thing you can do is to learn to master the rules and then go beyond them. Don’t try to jump straight to ignoring them because it will show in the results!
Understand the Rule of Thirds
Drag the eye using your frame, this rule is thought to enhance interest. Place your subject over each of the intersecting points on the grid until you find the composition that works best for the scene. Some cameras have this optional grid. They can display these lines, so use them.
Colour
You are looking for harmonic balance between the colours in the scene. Sometimes, even when your subject is beautiful, things look “bad”, and this might very well be because of the colours that are not mixing together in a flattering way. Ideally, you are looking for appropriate opposites in a wheel of colour. It’s good to study it. Oh and as a last resort, if colour doesn’t work don’t just discard the photo, go to black and white and see if that makes it better. Sometimes it does!
Contrast
This is one of the most important elements in any image. It defines the character and in many ways the emotional tone of the photo. Contrast can be achieved in many ways, and is more than controlling the amount of shadows and lights. For example, we can create contrast between something sharply focused against a blurred background, or by utilizing a strong pattern in relation to blank, negative space. We can also make the people in the photo to be completely different between them, creating another form of contrast.
Colour
Lines
Lines are powerful tools to draw interest in an image, you can make the eyes follow a path, use the vanishing point in your favour. The trick is to change your perspective until you find definite lines. Play with the surroundings, move around to find them. Leading lines, whether man-made or natural, draw your eye through an image
Contrast
Textures
They can add or subtract from your main subject, so we must use them wisely. If you are taking a portrait, and there are too many textures behind your subject, they will distract the eye and will compromise your composition. Sometimes, when you can’t get rid of them, it helps to re-think your image in black and white. Some other times, the texture is so good and interesting that it makes the image.
Negative Space
When you have a strong subject, say a person, or a flower, or a pet, you can use negative space around them to make the attention naturally focus on them. You can achieve this by using the sky, or water, or even a plain wall. Remember your rule of thirds to achieve this effect in the right way.
Lines
Foreground, Middle, Background
Think about a photograph’s composition as having foreground, middle, and background elements. This is specially relevant when composing landscape photographs, but the idea works with any kind of photo. In the end, what we need to remember is that everything counts towards the final image.
Balance
This is a very important point, and probably the one that is more subjective. Good images have a balance between the elements that are in the frame. Forms of balance include the relative “weight” of the elements, colour contrasts and composition, lines and patterns against negative space, or the use of black and white when colours are not adding balance to the image.
Texture
Conclusion:
Remember that YOU are responsible for EVERYTHING that is in the frame. This is the best way I can put it. You must be sure that everything in the frame remains under your creative control. To achieve this I think there are basically two paths, and they are complementary. 1. Shoot shoot shoot shoot. 2. Compare your photos with the ones from famous photographers and try to use the elements described in the present article as a guide to see how your photography compares.
Negative Space
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