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The Lost Houses
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The south (entrance) front photographed c. 1900 from a postcard sent in 1918. [MC]
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ntil the local government reforms of 18881889 Derbyshire did not sit inside a single boundary; it has detached ‘islands’, mainly to its south, created in the Saxon period by assarting – clearing of woodland by men of Derbyshire in unadopted regions. The settlements so created, once the County system had become established in the mid-10th century, tended to become detached parts of the area (county) of the people who had initially created them. Several counties had them. Derbyshire itself boasted Appleby Parva, Chilcote, Clifton Camville, Donisthorpe, Edingale, Measham, Oakthorpe, Ravenstone (the most southerly), Stretton-en-le-Field - and Willesley. Since 1889 they have been divided amongst Leicestershire and Staffordshire. CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 11
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of Derbyshire by Maxwell Craven Several of these ‘islands’ had substantial country houses, and indeed most of them have vanished, some almost without trace. Willesley was probably the grandest though. The place itself was one of those granted by the Mercian grandee Wulfric Spott to the Abbey of Burton in his will, but post-Conquest it was divided between the de Ferrers Earls of Derby (later the Duchy of Lancaster) and the Abbey.
From Manor House to Romantic Vision The manorial estate was initially tenanted under them by the de Willesley family who built a chapel, before passing it on to the Ingwardby family and then, also by inheritance, to the Abneys of Ingleby, who eventually united the estate. These families had few properties outside Willesley, so it is likely that there was an historic manor house, probably on the site of the house that was demolished in 1953. Unfortunately, nothing is known of its early appearance. The later house, which formed the core of the later one, was described by William Woolley in his History of Derbyshire (1713) as ‘a good seat’, with the Lysons’ brothers (1817) adding ‘The manor house which is in the form of a letter H, appears to have been built in or about the time of Charles I’ – that is the period 1625-1649. It was taxed on 16 hearths in 1670 suggesting that it was a substantial building.
Bust of Capt. Frank Abney-Hastings by Antonio Sochos, in the National Art Collection.
The earliest picture is an engraving of 1820, showing a substantial brick house of two stories and attics, with an eleven bay façade, the projecting cross-wings at each end of the main block being of three bays. The gables were elaborately shaped, rather similar to those of contemporary Thrumpton Hall, on the
The long, rather rambling, west front c., 1904, from a post card, sent in 1917. [MC] 12 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
County’s Nottinghamshire border, and these may well be original to c. 1630, suggesting its builder was George Abney or his son James. However, the late Professor Andor Gomme, looking at the heavily stone-clad rusticated façade with its Ionic pilasters enclosing a swagger pedimented doorcase, was confident in attributing these later features to a fairly drastic 1720s rebuilding by Francis Smith of Warwick, architect of Sutton Scarsdale, a house which it closely resembles in these details. Smith, judging from some later accounts, also opened out the interior to create a double height hall and installed a fine timber staircase behind it, whilst at the same time endowing the gables with slim Baroque urn finials. The windows were deepened, sashed and given stone key-blocks. The rhythm of the façade has much in common with another work by Smith, Stanford Hall on the LeicestershireNorthamptonshire border, just off the M1. The rustication probably owes its inspiration to another Northamptonshire house, Lamport Hall, where a similar treatment was meted out to an earlier house by Wren’s follower, John Webb from 1655. A landscaped park of
Post card of a stone statue of Diana restraining one of her hounds and reaching for an arrow (probably to dispatch poor old Acteon!) Renaissance, and formerly standing in the park. [MC]
155 acres was created, including a modest lake, and this may have been later and attributable to William Emes (1729-1803), a locally based follower of Capability Brown. The man who commissioned these works was probably not Sir Edward Abney (died 1728), a senior retired judge, who has been blind for the last twenty years of his life, but his son, Sir Thomas (16911750). And so matters rested until 1791 then Thomas Abney of Willesley, the last of his direct line, died, leaving an only daughter, Parnell, married to a member of an illustrious neighbouring family, Maj. Charles Hastings, a French-born natural son of Francis, 10th Earl of Huntingdon, whose chief seat was then Ashby Castle. Thomas, who had a distinguished military and diplomatic career was raised to a baronetcy in 1806, assuming the surname and arms of Abney-Hastings by Royal Licence. During the Napoleonic Wars he entertained at Willesley numerous officers of the French navy and Grand ArmĂŠe with whom he felt to a degree at home, being a fluent French speaker and the son of a Parisian actress. He was also a prominent Freemason, as trait he shared with many of them.
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But the changes did not stop there. A medium sized manor house was about to become a major seat, for the north side, where there was previously a re-entrant courtyard, was replaced
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Unfortunately Sir Thomas shot himself in 1823, and the estate passed to his elder son, the 2nd baronet. He later set about enlarging the house. The south front acquired a pair of small gables over the bays flanking the entrance and a coatof-arms above an inscribed tablet was placed between them. The formerly plain west side was much extended, with similar gables, but largely lower and irregular, extending back to the small stone chapel, founded by Michael de Willesley before 1270, but later clad in stone and embattled some years before.
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of Derbyshire by Maxwell Craven by a three storey square plan diapered brick tower ending in four ogee topped pinnacles at the angles, all joined by a pierced stone balustrade, looming over the Baroque south front, adding bizarre variety to the roof line, where the pinnacles were joined by grouped batteries of Tudor-style chimney stacks. The similarity between this feature and the tower at Worsley Hall, near Manchester or the porch at Pull Court, Worcestershire, suggests that the architect may well have been Derby-born Edward Blore (17871879) a friend of Sir Walter Scott and designer
of the finished version of Buckingham Palace and the exotic palace in the Crimea for Prince Worontsov. Reputedly the interior was much modified to suit the architect and clients’ Romantic vision, to become thoroughly Gothic, Smith’s staircase being replaced by an epic stone one in the tower which would not have disgraced a Hollywood film set. The park was also re-ordered – by whom is not known – and the modest lake extended to no less than 24 acres, lying on the north side
of the house where the architect also provided a picturesque boat house. On the death of the initiator of those momentous changes, Sir Charles Abney-Hastings 2nd Bt., in 1858, the estate passed to a cousin, Lady Edith Maude Rawdon-Hastings, daughter of George, 2nd Marquess of Hastings (who had inherited the Hastings’ Ashby estates from his mother) and heiress of her ne’er do well brother, the 4th (and last) Marquess, who had lost most of his Scottish estates with two rash bets on the 1867 and 1868 Derbys and died shortly afterwards at 26. Edith married Thomas Clifton of Clifton in Lancashire (who assumed the surname and arms of Abney-Hastings - by Act of Parliament, no less) and inherited the Earldom of Loudoun from her brother. She died in 1874, six years before her widower was raised to a barony as 1st Lord Donington. She planted an avenue of trees all the way (not admittedly that far) from the house to her ancestors’ home at Ashby Castle, and by the time her son had succeeded her as Earl of Loudon and 2nd Lord Donington, the estate had grown, despite the best efforts of her late brother, to 13,000 acres. In 1919 Lady Edith’s son died without a male heir, and the estate was sold up. The house and some of the land was bought by Maj. J. Ashworth, a Nottingham attorney who sold the park two years later to the local golf club, and turned the house into an hotel, run by one Chapman, but on his departure in 1929, it began to fall on hard times and closed in 1936, after which the house was never lived in again.
The stubborn remains of the north side of Willesley hall, awaiting the next charge, 1953 [Ashby LHS]
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The house even had a railway locomotive named after it, although as it was a Great Western one, the connection might seem obscure (unless Lord Donington had been a director of the line). This was Modified Hall class 4-6-0 No. 6967 Willesley Hall, built in 1944 and named two years later. It lasted until modernisation caught up with it, being scrapped in December 1965. The only other Derbyshire house to share this accolade is the very much still standing Foremark Hall. The house remained empty and decaying until 1953 when it was – with considerable difficulty, thanks to Blore’s substantially built works – blown up with dynamite. Once the site was cleared, the immediate surroundings became (and still are) the local scout HQ and camping ground, a fragment of Blore’s substantial stable block remaining as part of the otherwise unpretentious building. The lake, happily survives, although the contours and planting of the park have been somewhat altered by the golf club.
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Giardino, Villa San Michele, Capri
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xiting Amalfi harbour for our trip to Capri was made tricky due to the fact that I wanted to film it all as it happened. I admit that I’m not the worlds most happy person on a boat especially as it swayed a bit to avoid a yacht entering the harbour. Fortunately we could still see the bottom of the bay through the crystal clear water. With twenty people on board on what I considered a small boat for this epic journey along the Amalfi coast the captain, driver or whatever he called himself dressed in shorts and t-shirt, rather than a proper uniform of epaulettes, an ornamental shoulder piece displaying various stripes, colours and emblems, got the boat up to speed. He didn’t even have a captains table that we could dine together at. Maybe I got the wrong idea of this cruise.
Café Casa Oliv, Capri
As the sea spray lifted beautifully into the air we marvelled as the dramatic coastline revealed its small coves and caves. Occasionally a dolphin appeared, something I hadn’t been prepared for here. With the village of Positano, which we visited many years ago, over to our right (or is that starboard?), we ploughed on. Positano was a former poor fishing village and port and has grown in the last 70 years into a major tourist attraction. Peach and terracotta houses that impossibly cling to the hillsides drop down to the beach where famous people have walked including Mick Jagger, Franco Zaffirelli and little me! Capri was our destination which people kept telling me was famous for Gracie Fields living there. Why did she sing about Bluebirds in Dover when she lived on Capri? I suppose it didn’t rhyme! I was however more interested in Swedish-born physician Axel Munthe; born 1857 and died 1949, author of the book ‘The Story of San Michele’ published in 1926 and a best seller in numerous languages, reprinted constantly over the years. He spoke English, German, French, Italian and possibly a few more. In 1892, he was appointed physician to the Swedish royal family and served as the personal physician of the Crown Princess, Victoria of Baden, continuing when she became Queen consort until her death in 1930. His life as a doctor was tinged with sadness, tragedy and happiness and this is reflected in the book which he pointed out isn’t an autobiography. You can laugh and cry as you read his life’s experiences. Villa San Michele is on Capri if you’re wondering where I was going with the above. It was lovingly restored by Munthe and is a must see on a visit to Anacapri.
Vista dalla Cappella, Capri
The island of Capri was for many years strewn with remains of marble columns and Roman remains which Munthe used to build Villa San Michele on the site of a once Imperial Roman Villa and a medieval Chapel. The climb up to the villa from Marina Grande meanders through the shops, cafes and numerous tourists. The villa features according to their web site villasanmichele.eu. Two thousand year-old sculptures, replicas of ancient CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 19
masterpieces of art, Roman tombstones mixed with 18th-century furniture – everything arranged in a fanciful way in rooms and loggias where the sunlight plays on the polychromatic marble floors. Above all you will find a romantic garden with cypresses, myrtle and exotic flowers, filled with birdsong and sweet scents. In the remotest corner by the chapel the sphinx awaits you. Day after day it keeps perfectly still on the balustrade, watching the world spinning round. The breathtaking view from this enchanted spot creates the feeling that time has ceased to exist.” None of the above is an exaggeration, this is a truly spectacular place to visit and being perched on the edge of the cliff affords outstanding views. You could lose yourself in this setting for hours on end. Hour long walks are arranged every day from April to October. Munthe also acquired the mountainside in order to stop the locals spreading nets to catch the birds and sell them off, so he created a sanctuary for migratory birds. I had to smile at the selling technique for Mount Solaro “Soaring 589 metres above sea level”. Wow only yesterday we were up Vesuvius at 1200 meters above sea level. However, I have to say that when you are that high on a small island looking out at a short stretch of land and shimmering sea it seems higher than Vesuvius and more picturesque to boot. From this vantage point we had a snapshot of our journeys over the years, The bay of Naples, the Amalfi coastline and over to the mountains in Calabria. If visiting natural caverns floats your boat you can join the queue along with people from around the world to visit the Blue Grotto. The cavern is 25 meters wide and 60 meters long, with a tiny one metre entrance. Lying on your back in a wooden rowing boat is the only way in! Inside the dark cavern you will enjoy the breathtaking deep blue ocean. Floating here is an experience that should definitely be on your personal bucket list. A short walk from the harbour are the Augustus Gardens from which you can view the dramatic Faraglioni, three towering rock formations which jut out from the Mediterranean just off the coast. Food on Capri is simple the most popular dish being ravioli capresi . The pasta is light and filled with marjoram, parmesan and aged ricotta cheese, all
Giardino, Villa San Michele, Capri tossed together with a fresh tomato and basil sauce. The beauty of this is that there is not a lettuce leaf in sight. Perfect. Freshly caught shrimps are also extremely popular and sometimes served sautéed or raw! So much of this food is served with pasta and I can handle that plus of course a customary glass of wine. What better way to enjoy this than by sitting outside in the sun watching the tourists go by. What more can I say about it other than whilst visiting main coast Italy, Capri and Villa San Michele are a must see. My thanks to Claudia Ferraro at Villa San Michele for sending me such superb pictures. Garry.
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Antiques & Collectibles by Maxwell Craven
Railway Locomotive Name Plates
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ast year we had a whole bunch of railwayana through Bamfords, mainly authentic relics of the great age of travel, but amongst them the nameplate of a locomotive built by the Southern Railway just after the Second World War and known to enthusiasts (in my time at least) as a ‘spam can’. These were large mixed traffic semistreamlined engines, partly called after places in the West Country (where they were intended to serve) and partly after matters connected with the Battle of Britain and destined for service in Kent. The particular item was Battle of Britain Winston Churchill – the very locomotive which had pulled the late prime minister’s funeral train to Bladon, Oxfordshire, where he was buried. I am old enough to recall seeing it (despite poor reception in mountainous North Wales) on a black-and-white TV that January day in 1965.
Such was the fame of this relatively short-lived machine that I knew that what we had was a full sized replica, and it duly sold for a couple of hundred pounds (non-replica) money, as it were. There are plenty of these around, although a new replica can cost you quite a bit more. Look out for one of the initial locomotive of the ‘Lord Nelson’ class (SR again) and you’ll have to shell out £790 for a solid brass copy in full size. But it got me thinking. If you can pay nearly £800 for a replica of a nameplate of a famous – say an ‘iconic’ – locomotive, what might the cost of an original be? Locomotives have borne names ever since Rocket and its rivals vied for supremacy at the Rainhill trials in 1829, so there are nominally a lot around. Yet 19th century survivals are fantastically rare most, sadly, were scrapped with the time-expired bearers of the name. Nearly everything now available for sale comes from the last generation of steam locomotives (I leave aside nameplates from diesel and electric locomotives: they are less sought after, usually of less good quality materials and commoner, despite still making relatively good money). Most engines with names were express passenger ones of various sizes. The handsomest were those on the locomotives of the old Great Western, cast in brass on heavy plates, often curved to fit over a wheel splasher. Modest Cobham Hall fetched £5,800 in 2010. Other companies used steel ones, usually smaller, although the Southern Railway did brass ones until the war. Rarity is often an indicator of price, so one works out the number of a 24 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
Above: Nameplate from Mallard, at York Railway Museum. [NRM York] Below: Repainting the real thing at the National Railway Museum, York: Winston Churchill’s nameplate and armorial. [NRM York]
particular class of engines built and multiplies the total by two (there being a name plate on either side of the engine). Thus Derbyshire-born Sir Nigel Gresley designed the not particularly memorable ‘Hunt’ & ‘Shire’ class of 4-4-0 locomotives in the 1920s. The LNER built forty two of them, meaning there must have been 84 nameplates, mainly counties but also names of particular Hunts. I recall sitting with my father around 1961 when we learnt from his newspaper that British Railways were scrapping these engines and, by applying to BR one could acquire a nameplate of one’s choice for about £75 – scrap value plus cartage. As one of these machines had been called The Craven, I urged Papa to put in an offer for it, but when they told him the price (which in retrospect he could well have afforded) he demurred. Yet it would have made a splendid investment today, 57 years later, for one sold not so long ago for £15,100! Another reason for them being scarcer than they are is that many were presented by BR to the institutions after which the engine had taken its name. Thus many ‘Battle of Britain’ class engines had their squadron number nameplates with their accompanying badges, enamelled onto a large attached oval, were presented to the relevant squadron HQs. Football clubs whose names had adorned LNER B17 class engines were presented with the relevant plates, and to all sort of stately homes received plates from Great Western Railway ‘Castle’, ‘Hall’, ‘Manor’ and ‘Grange’ class locomotives.. But to acquire these wonderful items, one requires fantastically deep pockets. Top price to date was a sister engine of world speed record breaking Mallard, called Golden Fleece. One plate alone went for £60,000 in
This page; top to bottom: Mersey nameplate from a small 0-4-0 industrial locomotive from Warrington: made £220 [GWRailwayana] ‘Hunt’ class nameplate from The Percy: £10,000 plus. [Railwayana] ‘King Arthur’ class Sir Durnore: £8,600 [Railwayana] Minoru – a sister engine to Flying Scotsman, £7,000. The horse was Edward VII’s Derby winner in 1909 but fell a victim to the Russian Revolution! [GW Railwayana] Nameplate from Gresley LNER B17 4-6-0 ‘Football’ class, Darlington probably worth £5000-£9,000; a replica will cost you £550. [Private collection] December 2014, whilst another from its sister engine Golden Eagle fetched £31,000 two years ago. Mind you, less romantic names suffer price-wise: Another Mallard sister, prosaically named after a director of the company, Sir Murrough Wilson, only made a paltry £19,600! The nameplates from the equivalent top-link locomotives on the rival LMS also make similar money, although neither are much to look at compared with one from a ‘spam can’ or a GWR engine: ‘Princess Coronation’ class Pacific City of Liverpool made £36,900 (place loyalty, no doubt!) whereas Queen Elizabeth from a similar engine, but from its days as a streamliner, made £51,500. More affordable are brass nameplates of the Southern’s likeable but modest ‘King Arthur’ class engines, retailing at around £8,000 at present, although the obscure Malorian Sir Durnore made £8,600 not long ago, so heaven knows what King Arthur himself might command! In other words, it is fame and popularity which makes the big money. Take the sister engines of Flying Scotsman. Most were named after racehorses which had won classics in the forty years or so before the engines were named. This in itself resulted in some oddities, like Dandy Dinmont (survivor of a serious collision before the war), Call Boy and Galopin (geddit?). Thus, Minoru has recently sold for a very modest £7,000, but one of the more famous members of the class could add a nought easily – or very nearly. Industrial locos also often carried names. They were usually simple little engines and accordingly had simple names, like Jane, Mersey, Powerful,
Diamond or Colliery No. 1. These plates can actually be affordable, and start at something in the order of £250 rising to £1,250 for better known ones. The added pleasure for all is that one can research these engines and unite them with a sort of mechanical biography – even forgotten for industrial types – that can add much interest and also boost the resale price a great deal. Which can’t be bad. But overall, if this area of modern collecting appeals, be rich. Be very rich!
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A look at some of our most ancient thoroughfares by Maxwell Craven
H
aving looked at a pre-historic thoroughfare last month I thought it opportune to look at some of the roads imposed upon the landscape by the Romans. The Romans, of course, are famous for the straightness of their roads, and much ink has been spilt on the surveying methods used to achieve this. Essentially, sightings were made from one high point to another, and the points joined in as direct a manner as possible, although detours and links were often necessary as the relief – slopes, streams and declivities demanded.
Rykneild Street alignment at City Road, Little Chester looking south away from the Roman town, February 2016.
Rykneild Street being excavated by an archaeologist from Trent and Peak Archaeology at Little Chester.
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Left: The Elms, Five lamps. This house of 1799 was built by silk-throwster Joseph Davenport right on top of the alignment; no doubt the agger, spread out a bit, made for excellent foundations. The road ran from lower Belper Road, right across the view to West Avenue to the left. Above:. Nuns’ Street looking SW along the alignment to Brick Street
Bemrose School from the air, looking east. The road runs up the drive (in trees half way up on left), under the school and across the playing fields almost horizontally to join St. Wystan’s Road. Ryknield Street was the road from the north-east to the south west, ultimately from York (Eburacum) via Templeborough and Chesterfield to Gloucester (Glevum) in the south-west via Wall-by-Lichfield (Letocetum), Droitwich (Salinae) and Worcester (Vertis). It crossed the Derwent at its lowest possible bridging point to join another road that ran south-east towards Ermine Street (the modern A1) and west to Chesterton (Staffs.). Within a very few years of the Roman arrival, a fort had been constructed on the ridge overlooking this crossing (footings of the bridge were discovered through the efforts of a local sub-aqua club in the late 1980s) and, by the AD 80s, this fort had been replaced by a more ambitious one beside the crossing itself, which rapidly developed into a small town called Derventio, today’s Little Chester. The ancient name for this NE to SW Roman road, which went from 32 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
Gloucester (Glevum) in the SW to Doncaster (Danum) in the NE. via Derventio was Rykneild Street. William Woolley, writing in around 1713 added that, ‘. . . it is plainly seen in the meadows from this place [Little Chester] at the latter end of Summer.’ It was named as Ricning Street on William Stukeley’s map of Little Chester from his Itinerarium Curiosum of 1721. In c. 1200 it was rendered Ykenild, and the name is of post-Conquest origin. The alignment from Little Chester northwards was excavated in 1926 by Deputy Borough Surveyor, C. B. Sherwin. As Rykneild Street the road was first named as we now have it with an ‘r’ in front of Ykenild in Ralph Higdon’s Polychronicon of 1344, but the origin of the name is a puzzle, even the late Professor Eilert Ekwall
Lt. Creighton’s map of Derby; Rykneild Street’s course marked in red. writing that the ‘. . . etymology. . . has not been found’ followed by Professor Cameron who suspects the name was borrowed from the Ickneild Way, in the home Counties. One might think it more likely that they developed in parallel from a similar (or the same) source. The course of the road south from Little Chester is not wholly understood as it passes through the built-up part of Derby, but from Little Chester the route seems to have crossed the river about a quarter of a mile below the Roman small town, where there was a bridge, all vestiges of which have been destroyed by water erosion and distinct from the original crossing noted above, to which we will return on a future occasion. The road probably followed the alignment of the lower portion of Belper Road where it approaches Five Lamps, then down West Avenue (or on an alignment very close to it, then along a modern housing estate pedestrian path called Nuns’ Green and then along Nuns’ Street, Brick Street and across the Friar GateAshbourne Road intersection into Uttoxeter Old Road. The oldest known borough boundary also followed the line here and, in the absence of archaeological data, it is the course of this early boundary that seems also to determine the course of the road. Unfortunately, by the time Lt. Creighton drew his map of Derby c. 1823 (which I have included, with the course of Ryneild Street shown in red) the Improvement Commissioners had expanded the boundary well to the north, although in the SW part
of the borough, it still followed the Roman alignment from what is now Rowditch to Rowditch Gate. From Uttoxeter Old Road, the alignment ran to Rowditch, but was slewed in 1876 to accommodate a long bridge over the newly built Great Northern Railway, the line surviving in the hedge line which now marks the NW ends of the gardens/yards of the cottages along the later alignment. The road crossed the new turnpike Uttoxeter Road and ran more or less up the drive to Bemrose school, proceeding under the school itself to meet Constable Lane, Littleover at a boundary called Rowditch Gate, where once stood a toll cottage and the borough boundary veered sharply to the SE.. Today Constable Lane after about 450 yards straight, turns sharply left, but here the Roman road proceeded straight on its course marked by a bosky thoroughfare with a few individual houses on it called Owler’s Lane. After a while, the relief demanded a change of direction and the alignment went left, up the slope and onto a new alignment which took it along the old southern boundary of the City Hospital. When the present Royal Hospital was mooted, I was still at the Museum. Knowing the agger of the road (the raised hump which often marks the course of Roman Roads over flattish ground) was still visible there, we tried CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 33
to have English Heritage (as it then was) declared a scheduled ancient monument, but to little avail. Hospitals outrank antiquities, especially when they are the pet project of a group of councilors supporting the government of the day! Needless to say it was soon ploughed out. From thence it rose up the hill further to cross Chain Lane and join the surviving alignment near the bottom of Pastures Hill. What used to be thought of as a well-preserved piece of agger beside the old Crest Motel turned out, on excavation, to have been a medieval baulked headland surviving from Littleover’s three field ridge and furrow. The actual road was slightly further to the north. Although the complexities of the junction of the old Burton Road with the new A38, which has obliterated part of the alignment, the modern A38 follows the Roman alignment right up to the crossing of the Dove where it enters Staffordshire. Interestingly, it forms the NW boundary of the parish of Findern high on its agger.
Owler’s Lane looking back towards Constable Lane.
Now the name Findern (Findre in Domesday Book, 1086) seems to have baffled Professor Kenneth Cameron in his magisterial three volume Place Names of Derbyshire of 1959. He wrote: ‘an obscure name, still not satisfactorily explained’. Dr. Mills goes for a derivation from Old English fīn + renn = ‘house for wood’ which seems unsatisfactory. The latest research suggests that the name contains the British element ffin = boundary, which is supported by this distinctive stretch of Ryknield Street forming a substantial part of the parish boundary. Indeed, the road divided also divided Findern from Etwall, Burnaston (part of Etwall parish) and Mickleover from a very early date, raised up upon its agger due to the flood plain of the Trent. Parish boundaries are accepted to be of considerable antiquity. In which case we can see the second element dre = British/modern Welsh ‘home’, thus the more convincing ‘house by the boundary’. Note that a pre-Roman settlement with a 1,000 yard long double-banked cursus was excavated here (and in Willington parish adjacent) 1970-1972 and a bronze age and later settlement a few years before. Thus the more southerly section of the most important of the Roman Roads in the County, but not one that provides the lover of fresh air with any pleasant walking or tracing old routes, down sequestered sunken lanes and over moors. But for anyone wanting an excuse for an eclectic walk through largely unfamiliar parts of Derby, it presents distinct possibilities! Ryknield can be spelled in many ways. In this article we have followed the authors spelling. Editor 34 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
Pastures Hill looking SW from near the High School. The Roman alignment joins half way down from the right and on a clear day one can see the road running straight to the SW
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DRIVES and GARAGES Adding a drive or garage may be one of the simplest ways of adding value to your home. However the costs are dependent upon your location. Derbyshire has an abundance of hills and if your proposed drive has a steep incline, up or down, then this could have a significant impact on costs. If your property fronts onto the public highway then construction of a new vehicular access or drop crossing will necessitate obtaining permission under Section 184 of the Highways Act 1980 and Section 86(4) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991. Before commencing the above process, you must also check whether planning permission is required for the work. Generally speaking planning permission will be required for vehicular access to all classified roads, that is Class A, B and C roads, and sometimes on unclassified roads, for instance if the site lies within a conservation area. Your local City, District or Borough Council’s planning department will give you specific advice on this. If planning permission is required, it is your responsibility to obtain the necessary consents and no further action will be taken by the Highways Authority until planning permission is granted.
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Regardless of whether planning permission is required, the Highways Authority, possibly the County Council, requires the access to comply, as closely as possible, with their standard approved details. Details of which can usually be downloaded from their web-site. However if you opt to employ a private contractor rather than the Council then you are responsible for their work and any errors or omissions. You will need to read their contract conditions very carefully before you enter into a formal agreement. By using the private contractor option, you are also responsible for guaranteeing those works for 2 years and for any damage to the highway or utility apparatus which is generally located under the pavement, and any claims due to an incident caused by the works.
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Therefore resist the temptation to have it done by a contractor who knocks on your door or someone you know from the pub offering to do it ‘on the cheap’. Because of the potential for damage to gas, water, electrics, data and telecoms infrastructure in the footway a reputable contractor needs to carry public liability insurance of at least £5 million, and you should ask for a copy of their insurance documents to ensure that it is up to date. And do not be shy to telephone the insurance company to check the documents are valid. A reputable contractor will not be offended by this but if they do object then take that as a warning. When getting quotations for such work put the request in writing and state that the quotation should include work for your vehicular access and must be constructed in accordance with the County Council’s published standards. The Highway Authority do make an administration charge irrespective of who carries out the work which is somewhat higher for using a private contractor as they will send out someone to carry out an inspection of the work during or after construction.
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Access completed: Generally speaking planning permission will be required for vehicular access to all classified roads,
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The Highways authority current costs for forming a standard vehicle access is in a range of £800-£1200 and generally once they provided a quotation it will be valid for 90 days. If you opt for the Private Contractor route you must wait until you have a letter of approval from the Highways Authority before giving them the go ahead. If planning permission is required then the Highways Authority will automatically be consulted by your local City, District or Borough council. This will most likely result in some conditions being attached to your planning approval. These may include driver and pedestrian visibility splays, minimum sizes for the parking provided, the type of surfacing and paving you will use and how surface water run off from the drive will be disposed of. If your proposed driveway will be created on what is presently garden then surface water run-off can become a problem. Soils and planting will generally
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absorb much more water coming onto it compared with tarmac or concrete. However it is now possible to use ‘thirsty’ concrete which has, according to suppliers, incredible rates of absorption. A distinction is made between ‘porous’ and ‘non porous’ surfaces but either way you are responsible for disposing of water falling on your drive within your own boundaries, letting it run over the pavement is not an option.
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Of course if to create parking space you must cross land that is privately owned then you will also need to negotiate with the owners to obtain their approval in writing and ensure that the rights obtained are included within your property deeds. Specific legal advice will be necessary and the costs incurred will be money well spent. A friend has recently created a drive/hard standing using porous material on an awkward shaped site of around 28sqm for about £3000 including the costs of the planning application and the vehicle access formed by a private contractor. Other than the footpath crossing, he some of the work himself including the digging out of the garden and planting, skip loading etc., and it involved about 3 days hard labour for him. This was essentially
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GARAGE Perhaps you have an attached or integral garage that is presently used, not for storing a car but for storing lots of other ‘stuff ’. You are not alone!! You may be tempted to turn it into another room for the house. However doing that may require planning approval as the current planning approval may be conditional on providing a certain number of parking spaces. You will also need Building Regulations approval for this. Some Council web-sites indicate the fees they charge for this specific project and quite possibly also have an advice
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sheet about which regulations apply and how you can satisfy them. If you have a contractor carry out the work for you then you must check that they carry employer’s and public liability insurance as mentioned previously. As they will be working inside your house it would be prudent on your part to notify, in writing, the insurance company providing your home and contents insurance. Again is it financially worth the effort? Reportedly banking group Santander conducted research into this and on average such a garage conversion saw a property’s value rise by around £7,000.
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Gardening March 2018 with Mark Smith
After the cold and very wet months of January and February, I’m hoping that March will be that turning point of warmer, drier weather. Your pansies might not have performed like they used to (because of the wet weather) but primulas and spring flowering bulbs will, so stock up with those and they will give you much needed colour for this time of year. Now that everything is starting to show signs of life in the garden, it’s good practice to put a handful of general purpose fertiliser around the base of you new and semi-new plants. This month there will be a huge selection of ready planted baskets or containers in the garden centres, if you don`t have the know how to plant your own this saves you the effort and also saves buying extra plants and compost you may not need. Don`t buy that wilted bunch of flowers from the petrol station !
General Garden Maintenance • Refresh alpine gardens with new grit and replace any old plants that may have died over winter. • Re-fill any bird feeders with new seed or nuts and provide fresh drinking water. • Check borders for newly emerging weed seedlings and hoe them out. • Weather permitting, tidy up the lawn by trimming new edges with a half moon and give the lawn a cut setting the blades on high. • Dig in plenty of home-made or nursery bought compost into borders ready for planting herbaceous perennials or summer flowering bulbs. • Buy summer flowering bulbs now such as gladioli, lily and eucomis. • Lift and divide large clumps of herbaceous perennials and exchange them with your friends. • Prune hard back last year’s buddleia stems to ground level. • This is the last chance to prune roses back to new shoots. • Feed and mulch rhododendrons, azaleas, pieris and camellias with
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ericaceous (acidic) plant food and compost. • Sprinkle fertiliser over flower beds and around shrubs and roses. • Check your garden for plants that did n`t make it through the winter, look in nurseries or garden centres for “bargain plant” areas these can sometimes have more than 50% off.
In the Allotment or Vegetable Patch • Sowing vegetable seed is cheaper than buying bigger plants. Crops from vegetables often produce more than you can use, so again share the surplus with friends or family. Nurseries and garden centres will have a grow-your-own section with seeds, trays, compost etc. to get you started. • Sow the following crops outside or under cloches: carrots, beetroot, broad beans, salad onions, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, spinach, leeks, lettuce, rocket, coriander, mixed salad or stir fry leaves, radish, turnip, peas, lettuce and Swiss chard. • Spread a layer of sulphate of potash fertilizer around fruit trees and soft fruit. • When they appear, spray new leaves of peaches and nectarines with copper fungicide to reduce or prevent peach leaf curl. • Sprinkle cabbages and other brassicas with pelleted chicken manure or other vegetable fertiliser. • Check fruit trees for “suckers” or grass around the trunk and remove, also put a handful of garden lime around the base of the fruit tree. • Plant early seed potatoes outside in rows, in large pots or potato bags.
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Gardening March 2018 with Mark Smith
• Continue sowing summer bedding plants in the greenhouse, these include marigolds, tagetes, verbena, zinnia, nicotiana and dahlias. March sees the start to a very exciting gardening year, here are 3 shrubs that you should manage to find a place for in your garden. Magnolia stellata: (Star Magnolia) One of my favourite “feature” plants for the garden, a beautiful compact shrub with dark green glossy leaves and masses of pure white “star” shaped flowers in spring before the foliage appears. Ideal for a garden with limited space as this variety will only reach about 4 to 5ft Forsythia x intermedia: When this shrub flowers it feels like the start of spring. The warm bright yellow flowers appear before the leaves so making an impressive show. The taller varieties are more widely available (‘Lynwood’, ‘ Spectabilis’) but there are new compact growing varieties now (‘Mini Gold’) which are suited to smaller gardens. Forsythia makes a great feature plant but also makes a fantastic informal hedge. It can grow happily in full sun or part shade and in a well drained soil or heavy clay!. Ribes sanguineum: Or the common name is flowering currant, not to be mistaken for fruiting currants also Ribes. This deciduous shrub is one of the easiest to grow with little or no care. For an abundance of flowers it likes full sun in a well drained but moist soil. The drooping flower buds start in late March until late April. The varieties to look out for are Ribes ‘ King Edward Vll’ (Scarlet) or ‘ White Icicle’ (White). Like Forsythia this also makes a good informal hedge.
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ay Mellor can hardly contain her excitement. The scriptwriter and director who was behind such gripping television dramas as Band of Gold, Playing the Field and The Syndicate has come up with her first musical which will visit Nottingham on a huge tour – and she can barely stop herself from attending every night.
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She’s teamed up with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s son Nick to write Fat Friends the Musical. The popular characters from her TV series Fat Friends, which aired for five years from 2000 are back, but are now living in a world of mobile phones and social media. Kay says the themes featured in the work are even more relevant now. CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 71
I’m loving Fat Friends because that’s challenged me in every direction and I get the opportunity to work on it each time I see it whereas television happens one night and it’s gone. “The diet industry is absolutely booming and people are feeling really bad about their body image. Magazines are showing super-skinny people and saying ‘you need to look like this to be of any worth to anybody’. And I’m trying to challenge that.” The cast includes Jodie Prenger as Kelly Stevenson, a bride-to-be who works in her father’s fish and chip shop; former cricketer Andrew “Freddie” Flintoff as her fiancé Kevin; The X Factor winner Sam Bailey as Kelly’s mother Betty; former Coronation Street actor Kevin Kennedy as Kelly’s dad Fergus; and ex-Atomic Kitten singer Natasha Hamilton as slimming guru Julia Fleshman.
to let you in on a thought that you’re not privy to or it needs to move the plot on. “It was very difficult because I didn’t know the language of musical theatre. I’d sat in many auditoriums watching musicals and loving them but I didn’t know how to go about it. “A song’s a poem with a melody going on in my head. And Nick would say ‘well, just sing it’. I’ve got the most terrible singing voice to be honest with you, so I croaked down the phone what would be in my head. I’m sure he had a good few laughs but it gave us an idea. And then he’d come up with something absolutely stunning.”
Originally Flintoff was not going to take to the stage in Nottingham because of other commitments. Now he will be in the show from Monday until Thursday, with Joel Montague sharing the role on Friday and Saturday.
Kay Mellor OBE was born Kay Daniel on 11 May 1951 in Leeds to a Catholic father George and a Jewish mother Dinah. She has an older brother, Robert. Her parents divorced when she was young and she was brought up by her mother.
“Freddie loves this musical. You can see when he’s on stage how much he loves it,” says Kay.
She trained as an actress and secured parts in the soap opera Albion Market and the TV series All Creatures Great and Small.
“Joel is fantastic so nobody’s seeing something second best if they come at the end of the week. He’s amazing and has the voice of an angel.” Kay says everyone she approached to be in Fat Friends the Musical agreed straight away. “I’ve got a dream cast. I didn’t know whether Sam Bailey could act. She came to audition for me and I knew within five seconds of her saying her lines that she could play this part – she’s amazing.” She pays tribute to composer Nick Lloyd Webber for being very careful about who he chose for the ensemble. “He had a sound in his head that he wanted for the chorus. Sometimes I’d say about a singer ‘they’ve got a lovely voice’ and he’d say ‘it’s not quite what I want’. When the ensemble sing it’s incredible. It just fills the auditorium.” Lloyd Webber also wrote the music for Loves, Lies and Records, Kay’s 2017 TV series which was set in a register office. “He gets my work and that’s not always easy. You could turn it into a dirge or it could be too poppy. But Nick understands it. He’s got an understanding of character. I think he’s a really smart man.” So what’s the difference between writing a stage play and writing a musical? “It’s different inasmuch as you have to think where the songs will come in. A song has to tell you something different from what the dialogue says – it either needs 72 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
Her writing career began in the 1980s with Granada Television. She worked on Coronation Street and also wrote for Albion Market. She then penned seven episodes of the Channel 4 drama Brookside. Bosses at Granada spotted her talent and broadcast her first major series, Band of Gold. Starring Geraldine James, Cathy Tyson, Barbara Dickson and Samantha Morton, the programme revolved around the lives of a group of sex workers in Bradford’s red-light district. She also branched out into theatre. Her play A Passionate Woman featuring Derby-born Gwen Taylor had a run at the old Derby Playhouse in 1995 and a later version was seen in Nottingham. “I missed it in Derby but I did see it in Nottingham,” says Kay. “It went down so well there. Sometimes people immediately get my work and it seemed that the Nottingham audience did. “Gwen is a fabulous actress and I love her to bits. She’s a wonderful woman.” Kay was awarded the BAFTA Dennis Potter Award in 1997 for outstanding writing for television. She was appointed an OBE in the 2009 birthday honours and in 2014 she was awarded the Writers’ Guild Award for outstanding contribution to writing. Kay is hoping to have a holiday after Fat Friends the Musical finishes its tour. She has had a really busy time, penning two television series as well as the musical.
After Loves, Lies and Records, she wrote and directed Girlfriends, a series about three middle-aged women. They have been friends since their teenage years and get into all sorts of scrapes. It starred Miranda Richardson, Phyllis Logan and Zoë Wanamaker. Kay says she couldn’t believe her luck to get such great actresses for the six-part series.
of a backlash from the press she made a conscious decision not to appear in any more of her mum’s work.
Girlfriends also featured Rachel Dale who trained at the University of Derby and used to be a member of Darley Abbey-based Marlowe Players. She also appeared in Kay Mellor’s In The Club, a TV series following six pregnant women and their partners who go to a parenting class.
So what’s the best thing Kay’s ever done? “That’s hard to say. It’s like saying ‘which is your favourite child?’ Right now I’m loving Fat Friends because that’s challenged me in every direction and I get the opportunity to work on it each time I see it whereas television happens one night and it’s gone.
“I would have loved to have given Rachel a bigger part (in Girlfriends). I’ve got my eye on her. I think she’s a wonderful actress.”
“What I love about Fat Friends the Musical is that it’s a living, breathing thing and it changes every time I see it. And it’s nourishing me.
Kay still lives in Leeds with her husband Anthony Mellor. Last year they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. They have two daughters: the actress Gaynor Faye, who played Judy Mallett in Coronation Street and has appeared as a panellist on the TV show Loose Women; and Yvonne Francas, an actor who also produced one series of the detective series Scott and Bailey as well as Loves, Lies and Records.
“People have loved it so far and that gives the cast energy to move it forward. The audience come out smiling, they’re on their feet and I think that’s energising the cast.
Casting directors chose Gaynor to play Lauren in Fat Friends and Holly in Playing the Field. But because
“It’s really sad because she’s a fantastic actress,” says Kay. People say to me ‘do you write with anybody in mind?’ Sometimes I’m writing about a woman of Gaynor’s age and Gaynor will be in my mind. But she won’t be in my work any more which is a real shame.”
Above: The cast of Fat Friends and scenes from the current production.
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A walk over 2 Dales T he dales this walk covers are within a mile or two of each other and even though they join later, both are entirely different in character. Their names are the Manifold and the Dove. Their character is mostly determined by the rocks over which their rivers flow; gritstone shales for the Manifold and carboniferous limestone for the Dove’s bedrock. Limestone being the main underlying rock of this part of the White Peak, manages to take over lower down the manifold where the river disappears temporarily through cavernous systems carved millennia ago.
Starting in Longnor, an attractive one-time market town, the walk follows the broad, middle section of the Manifold before crossing over an airy grassy ridge in order to drop down into the valley of the River Dove. In this dale the scenery is entirely different; to the north beyond Crowdecote, dramatic limestone hills point skywards, looking for all the world like a row of shark’s teeth. In ancient geological times they marked the sea-washed edge of a tropical lagoon and, as a result are technically known as reef knolls. Longnor stands at the boundary of the Dark and White Peak and is also where several pack horse and drove roads meet. Until the beginning of the twentieth century it was an important meeting place for local farmers who came to this upland village in order to sell their produce and animals. The original owners of the village and lands round about, the Harpur Crewe family from Calke Abbey, built the market hall and cobbled its frontage. With the coming of efficient road
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Further up the road, the Cheshire Cheese, a pub still renowned for its excellent cuisine, takes its name from its origins in 1464 when it was used as a cheese store. Being at the junction of so many ancient paths and trackways makes Longnor a popular venue for walkers and cyclists. In a village where many of its houses were built at least two centuries ago, narrow alleys lead towards the church, which although being ‘improved’ in Victorian times, is built on Saxon foundations. If one of the gravestones is anything to go by, Longnor is a place of longevity. William Billings who died aged 112, was born in a cornfield and became a soldier who took part in the capture of Gibraltar in 1704; he saw action at the Battle of Ramillies in 1706 and fought against the Stuarts in the Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745. Another hint of Longnor’s age can be seen by the number of narrow fields’ to the left and close to the paths used soon after the start of the walk beyond Longnor. Known as ‘strip system fields’, they are the width a plough hauled by a pair of oxen could cover in a day. No longer commercially viable for modern farming, they are still marked out by not quite so ancient stone walls, and are preserved for their historical importance.
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2 Dales and Longnor Follow the road east for about 150yards away from the market place in Longnor. • Turn right along the signposted farm lane to Folds End Farm. • Go left through the farmyard and the climb over a stone stile. • Turn half left beyond the stile and then right at a path junction to follow a grassy path downhill to the River Manifold. • Follow the Manifold’s left bank, downstream. • Go forwards where a wider track bears left and then cross three fields. • At a four-way path junction, turn left and climb up to Over Boothlow Farm. • Keep left through the farmyard and then right along a concrete track. • Through a gate the track becomes rougher, follow it uphill to the ridge-top road. Pause on the way up to the road and admire the view. Longnor is to your right beyond the narrow strips of its Saxon fields. The wide basin of the Manifold was once considered suitable for flooding as a shallow reservoir, but as this would leave an ugly muddy scar during periods of drought, the plan was dropped in favour of the much more attractive Carsington Water. • Turn right along the road for about 500yds (460m) and then cross a stone stile. • Turn sharp left and begin to go steeply downhill across three fields. • Turn right on joining the track down to Under Whitle Farm. Pause again to admire the view, this time along the valley of the River Dove. In the valley bottom, to your right, grassy mounds mark the motte and bailey of Pilsbury Castle. In its time it was a wooden-staked fortification built by the Norman overlords in order to control the native Saxon population. • Cross a stile at the top of the farm’s garden in order to follow a way-marked path as far as an access drive to Upper Whitle Farm. Do not go into the farm yard, but bear left on the waymarked path. • Keep going downhill, past a couple of barns and, still following waymarks and stiles, cross a series of fields in order to reach the River Dove. • Turn left, upstream until you reach a
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Diary of events Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk MARCH 2-3 Teletubbies Live 2 Jake Bugg Solo Acoustic 5 Georgie Morrell - A Poke in the Eye 5-10 Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella 6-10 Classical Music BBC Philharmonic 12 The Conductor 13 and 15 Opera North: Madama Butterfly 14 and 16 Opera North: Don Giovanni 14 to April 7 War Horse 17 Opera North: Un ballo in maschera 18 Suggs 19 Jeanie Barton Band - The Songs of Doris Day 20-24 Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde 22 Cardboard Carnival 22 NTU Talks: Digital Puppetry 23 Family, Variety The Story of Mr B 23 War Horse 55+ Workshop 23 A Heart at Sea 23 The Parachute 23 The Luckiest Girl Alive 24 Breakfast with Joey 24 The Diabolical Mr Punch 24 A Strange New Space 24 Mrs Brewster Moves House 24 An Evening of Puppet Cabaret 25 War Horse Children’s Puppetry Workshop 26-31 Fat Friends - The Musical APRIL 3-7 Cilla - The Musical 10-14 This House 10 Gregory Porter Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk March 2-24 Two TWO is hilarious, yet heart-breaking, and presents a slice of working-class life in a Northern local pub in the 1980s. With a constantly quarrelling landlord and landlady, and the dozen regulars pulling up a stool, all life is present in this pub. It is the heart of communities. It is where people laugh, share stories, celebrate and mourn. It is a place of failed aspirations and unfulfilled lives. April 17-21 Monty Pythons Spamalot Funnier than the black death! Lovingly ripped off from the hugely successful 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a riotous comedy full of misfit knights, killer rabbits, dancing nuns and ferocious Frenchmen. Join King Arthur as he travels with his hapless Knights of the Round Table on a divine mission to locate the illusive Holy Grail – with uproarious consequences. Winner of the 2005 Tony Award for Best New Musical the hilarious Spamalot was written by Python legend Eric Idle, with a fantastic score co-written by John DuPrez including Always Look On The Bright Side of Life. 76 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk MARCH 1 An Evening with Leigh Timmis 3 Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys 4 Resolution Run Choose between 5K and 10K at the Derby Resolution Run. 6-10 The Tempest. A play of illusion, of loss and maybe redemption. 9 The Smyths 10 International Women’s Day Festival 14 Masters and Maestros 14-17 The Who’s Tommy 17 March of the Mods 17-18 John Bishop 20-24 Princess Ida 24 to April 8 Family Fun Park and Character Days Come and ride the Twister, Waltzer and Tango. New for this year will be the Cyber Dodgems and Kiddies Race-a-Rama. 25 Dance To The Music 28 You’ve Got Dragons 29 The Bootleg Shadows 30-April 13 The Ladyboys of Bangkok 2018 APRIL 10-14 Summer Holiday 15 Sporting Futures Derby 10k 20 Absolute Bowie – 50 Years of Bowie Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre. 01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org MARCH 1-3 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 2 Carnelian Saxophone Quartet 2 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - March 4 The Crime Writers Lunch 4 Ed Byrne 6-10 The Little Matchgirl - Other Happier Tales 7 Georgiana The 5th Duke’s Wife 7 Rob Jebb and Jon Morgan 11 The Performance Academy - You Should Be Dancing 12 An Evening with Ant Middleton 13 Levellers Acoustic 13 Tom Allen 14 Russell Watson 16 Charge 17 Buxton Studio Choir 18 Buxton Baroque - Music before the invention of the clarinet, piano and trombone among others, the Baroque period is filled with music of a gentler style but also great poignancy and at times plain rumbustiousness. 18 The Take That Experience 19-21 20th Century Boy The Smash Hit Marc Bolan Musical 22 Shappi Khorsandi 23 English Touring Opera The Marriage of Figaro 24 English Touring Opera Il Tabarro and Gianni Schicchi 25 Rossini: Fireworks!
26 Jasper Carrott’s Stand Up and Rock - Stand Up & Rock is back! The 2018 tour will see the legendary Jasper Carrott back with a new stand up show before introducing his musical compatriots that have been ‘rockin’ audiences all over the world. 27-29 Captain Flinn & The Pirate Dinosaurs 2 27 Bernstein Centenary 30 Hello Again The Story Of Neil Diamond 31 Judy and Liza APRIL 1 A Tribute to George Michael 2 A Spoonful of Sherman 3-7 Great Expectations 6 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - April 8 Rumours of Fleetwood Mac 11 The Waters of Buxton 11 John Beatty Adventures in the Wild 11 Jon Richardson The Old Man 12 Macbeth 12 The South Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk MARCH 2 Mark Steel: Every Little Thing’s Gonna Be Alright. 3 Katie Wright School of Dance - The American Dream 5-6 Black Men Walking 9-24 Our Country’s Good 14 Australia’s convict colonisers: the men and women of the first fleet and the penal crisis which sent them there. Spoken Word: Join us for a free Pre-Show Talk before the evening performance of Our Country’s Good on Wed 25 & 27 David Baddiel My Family: Not the Sitcom 31 to April 22 Holes: Holes is a multi-awardwinning novel that went on to have box office success on the big screen. APRIL 7 People of the Eye 14 Leaf Family Friendly: A warm, intimate and playful new piece for under 3s inspired by nature and the seasons Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre MARCH 4 Ballet Theatre UK 7-11 South Pacific - Mansfield Operatic Society 10 Martin Carthy 14 The Good Old Days of Variety 18 John Tams and Barry Coope in Concert 23-24 Fame The Musical APRIL 8 The Searchers in Concert 10 Alice in Wonderland 11 Rhythm of the Night. An Audience with Ian Waite & Oti Mabuse 12 Magic of Motown 14 Ultimate Buble
Russels Watson at Buxton Opera House with special guest Laura Wright Following a series of sell-out performances in 2015-16, the UK’s best-selling classical crossover artist of all time returns to the stage in 2018 with his new show Canzoni d’Amore. Russell is delighted to announce his special guest artist on his forthcoming Canzoni d’Amore tour will be best-selling soprano Laura Wright: “Laura is a truly accomplished performer who I have had the pleasure of working with many times in the past. It will be a delight having her on tour with us this year and I am very much looking forward to sharing a stage with her once again” – Russell Watson A Royal College of Music’s opera graduate with over a million album sales under her belt, Laura Wright has been one of the biggest selling classical artists of the Decade with a number one album in the classical charts, with The Last Rose. “It is always an honour to perform alongside Russell and so I am thrilled to be joining his upcoming tour. I have always looked up to him as a performer and he always attracts a fantastic audience who I am really excited to be performing for!” – Laura Wright Russell Watson is at Buxton Opera house on Wednesday 14 March at 7.30pm. Tickets are priced at £41.50-£49.50. Discounts are not available. To buy tickets contact Buxton Opera House Box Office, Tel: 01298 72190 or visit: www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
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TWO by Jim Cartwright
Derby Theatre March 2nd to 24th March
Starring in TWO will be Sean McKenzie and Jo Mousley. Sean, who lives in Derbyshire, has a wealth of theatre and TV credits to his name including, most recently, the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time. Jo also has a wonderful range of credits to her name including Brassed Off and Horrible Histories Horrible Christmas for Derby Theatre, The Twits for Leicester Curve, The Full Monty (No. 1 Tour) for David Pugh Ltd; Corrie! (No. 1 Tour) for Phil McIntyre; Blood and Chocolate for York Theatre Royal and Slung Low, and for TV: Coronation Street and Emmerdale. Jo is currently appearing in Hull Truck’s production of A Christmas Carol. 1 pub. 14 different characters. 2 actors. TWO is hilarious, yet heart-breaking, and presents a slice of workingclass life in a Northern local pub in the 1980s through a constantly quarrelling husband and wife landlord and landlady team, and the dozen regulars who pass through their pub in an evening; a place of failed aspirations and unfulfilled lives. All life is present in this pub, and through this range of colourful characters, the rich tapestry of their interconnecting lives is revealed; it is the heart of communities, it is where people laugh, share stories, celebrate and mourn. With the fragile relationship of our less than cordial hosts at breaking point, a rollercoaster of emotions unfolds. For more information and to book tickets call the Box Office on 01332 593939 or online at www.derbytheatre.co.uk.
CILLA THE MUSICAL
Cilla - The Musical is a spectacular and heart-warming musical adaptation of the critically acclaimed ITV mini-series based on the early life of Cilla Black, by BAFTA award winner, Jeff Pope (The Moorside, Philomena, From the Cradle To The Grave, Mrs Biggs, Little Boy Blue). The story follows the extraordinary life of the ordinary teenage girl from Liverpool, Priscilla White, and her rocky, yet incredible, rise to fame. By the age of just 25 she was recognised as international singing star Cilla Black and would go on to become Britain’s favourite television entertainer headlining series’ of Blind Date, Surprise Surprise and many more. The musical score is the ultimate soundtrack to the 60’s including Cilla’s greatest hits Anyone Who Had a Heart, Alfie and Something Tells Me, alongside a backdrop of the legendary ‘Liverpool Sound’ including The Beatles’ Twist and Shout, and American influences like California Dreamin’ by The Mamas and The Papas and many more.
My Fair Lady at Mansfield Palace Theatre 20 – 21 March
Lerner and Loewe’s award-winning story of a cockney flower girl transformed into an elegant lady is widely considered one of the greatest musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady is that rare musical by which all others are measured. The tale of a cockney flower girl transformed into an elegant lady features one of musical theatre’s greatest scores. Eliza Doolittle is a young flower seller with an unmistakable Cockney accent which keeps her on the lower rungs of Edwardian society. When Professor Henry Higgins tries to teach her how to speak like a proper lady, an unlikely friendship begins to flourish
Marlowe Players’ The Weekend
Michael Palin’s first stage play The Weekend, described as “a comedy with teeth”, will be the next production by the Marlowe Players who are celebrating their 70th year. Palin looks on it as “a comedy about someone who has made a mess of his life”. Martin Illston plays the lead character Stephen Febble, a role taken by Richard Wilson in the West End in 1994 and Palin himself last year when the play was turned into a BBC Radio 4 drama. But Martin will not be playing the part like Victor Meldrew. “It’s a mixture of Meldrew-type delivery, Basil Fawlty humour and Reggie Perrin soliloquies when Stephen is fed up with life. “It’s challenging because of the number of lines I’ve got to learn. We’re putting our own interpretation on the play and I’m really enjoying it.” Director Janet Townes explains why she chose the play: “I got hold of a copy four or five years ago because it sounded interesting. I read it through and really liked it but we weren’t able to do it at the time. I went back to it when we were looking for a comedy for our March production.” She adds that the play has sad undertones. “Stephen has emotions pent up over many years which he’s been unable to talk about and a weekend dinner party with family, neighbours and an uninvited guest provides an outlet for him.” The production calls for a dog which will be played by Janet’s 18-month-old rescue dog Tinker. “He comes to rehearsals and knows everyone so I think he’ll behave himself.” The Marlowe Players will perform The Weekend at Darley Abbey Village Hall from March 20-24. For tickets go to Marlowe-players.co.uk or call 07961 607372. CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 77
Diary of events Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water. “Bird Watching for Beginners – 4th March 2018 10.00am People who come on this walk, invariably see something a bit special, which boosts their interest. Sunday 4th February, they saw the first 2018 arrival of Ringed Plovers, a pair very viewable on the water edge. As we head towards the migration time for Ospreys, why not join we vigilantes for a crisp 2-hour walk, which walks are 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…1st April, and an extra 10.00am walk on 8th April to watch for Ospreys, and a 6pm walk on Tuesday 24th April to find Yellow Wagtails. Happy Birding.” Derby Concert Band Derby Concert Band’s Celtic Festival concert is on 17 March, 7.30pm at Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby DE1 2LF. Enjoy Irish favourites such as Danny Boy, The Irish Washerwoman and music from Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’, plus more contemporary Irish related music including Mustang Sally, You Raise Me Up and music from Titanic Tickets available from Foulds music shop, Irongate, Derby, or from any band member, or at the door. Further information about the band and future dates visit www.derbyconcertband.co.uk and www. facebook.com/DerbyConcertBand Breadsall Memorial Hall Indoor Car Boot/Table Top/Jumble Sale. Sunday, 13 May, 10am-12 noon. Brookside Road, Breadsall DE21 5LF. 16 tables. Admission 50p. Light refreshments. The Village Hall at Heage Friday, 23rd March, 7:30pm, The Andy Lawrenson Trio with their Gypsy Jazz Experience. Tickets £10 available from 01773 853358 30th March James Hickman and Dan Cassidy, or vmnewey@talktalk.net. This show is a stylish, humorous and very entertaining portrayal of a style of music originally pioneered by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. Little Chester Local History Group Thursday March 15th at 7.30pm in Chester Green Community Centre, Old Chester Road, Derby a talk by Ian Rogerson entitled, ‘Smile, Please say Cheese’. Sounds very entertaining!. Admission non-members £2. For further information Tel. 01332 559615. Derby Chamber Music Society 2nd March at 7.30pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB A concert by the Albany Piano Trio. Judith Bingham: The Orchid and its Hunters (commission) Beethoven: Piano Trio in D, Op.70 No.1 “Ghost” Bloch: Three Nocturnes Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor also Friday 23rd March at 7.30pm A concert by James Turnbull (oboe & cor anglais) Libby Burgess (piano) Schumann: Three Romances, Op.94 Nielsen: Two Fantasy Pieces, Op.2 Gurney: Three Preludes (piano solo) Dodgson: Sonata for Cor Anglais and Piano Richard Rodney Bennett: Four Country Dances 78 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
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Elgar: Soliloquy Saint-Saëns: Sonata for Oboe and Piano Op.166 Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) 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. Heanor Floral Art Group March 19, 7pm a demonstration by Roma Berridge of Bingham Notts title Spring Forward .Wilmot Street Welfare Centre .Wilmot Street Heanor . Everyone welcome visitors £5 new members annual subscription £30 . Further details 01332 880179 . Darley Abbey Historical Group Roman influence in Darley Abbey’ by Alan Bradwell All meetings start at 7.30pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS. £1 for members of the Historical Group and £3 for visitors. Contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 or visit https://darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress.com Derby French Circle 2nd March. The Resistance and the everyday life of the French. Max Tiano 16th March. The difficulties of French for English speaking people. Guy Richeux. Students £3 & Visitors £7 per meeting, full season membership £40. Venue: Fraser Hall, Leylands Retail Estate, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1AY. Fortnightly on Fridays from 7.15pm. www.derbyfrenchcircle.org.uk Derby & District National Trust Members’ Group. A friendly and vibrant group run by members, whose aim is to promote the National Trust and local properties. Join us on 20th March – A short AGM followed by “Those were the days”. Alan Hiley will talk about his links to the Derby Co-op, the Midland Railway and his 30 years in the engineering department of Trent Motor Traction. Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby. Talks start at 7.30pm. For more info contact the Membership Secretary on 01332 703512 or email derby.members@ nationaltrust.org Group Members £2.50 / visitors £5.00. Non members welcome. Allestree Flower Group 20th March. Flower demonstration by Sharon Badger Entitled ”Spring Celebration”. 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Venue: The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members £3.00. Nonmembers £7.00. For details telephone 01283 702601 Derby RSPB Oliver Smart presents a talk entitled “ The Science and beauty of birds”. on 14 March at 7.30pm. Meeting at the Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission:members £2.00. non-members £2.50. juniors £1.00. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Also: Join them on a Free Birdwatching Walk At Clumber Park Nottinghamshire. 9.30 am on 25 March at the far end of the car park near Clumber Chapel. There is a parking charge for non NT members if the pay booth is open. We will hopefully
see mostly woodland birds and some waterfowl. There are toilets and cafe on site and the walk will finish at about 12.30pm. Details on the local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups FOLK AND ACOUSTIC MUSIC Jez lowe in concert. Saturday 3 March 8pm assembly rooms theatre, Bakewell Town Hall. Jez Lowe is one of Britain’s finest award winning singer-songwriters and one of the folk scene’s most popular performers with his wonderful songs and amazing guitar playing. Tickets £12, u16s £8 from Box Office 01629 810152 or Ticket Hotline 01773 853428 John Tams & Barry Coope - tea time assorted Sunday 18 March 6.30pm. Palace Theatre, Leaming Street, Mansfield John Tams, one of the UK’s leading singer songwriters, with his colleague of many years the widely respected singer and musician Barry Coope proved to be a winning combination as Winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for “Best Duo”. John, actor, director and musician, is also known for his work at the National Theatre, and as Rifleman Daniel Hagman in the TV series “Sharpe”. Barry was a member of Britain’s leading a cappella trio Coope, Boyes & Simpson, and is now a member of Narthen. Plus Winter : Wilson one of the most popular man and wife duos on the folk scene. Guaranteed a great night of songs, both traditional and contemporary, will make this a very special evening. Early booking advised. Tickets £16.50, cons £15.50, Box Office 01623 633133 or Ticket Hotline 01773 853428 Good Companions Stage Society at Derby’s Guildhall Theatre with Summer Holiday 1963. The year Beatlemania was born, the Profumo affair scandalised Britain and preceded the resignation of Harold Macmillan, Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and co. snatched £2.6m cash from the London to Glasgow mail train, the ‘Britain in Bloom’ campaign began, the US trounced ‘Great Britain’ 23-9 in the Ryder Cup .... and Cliff Richard and the Shadows took off on a jaunt across Europe in a Routemaster bus in the film ‘Summer Holiday’. The film is now a feel-good stage musical in Michael Gyngell and Mark Haddigan’s adaptation, with Don and his fellow London Transport bus mechanics journeying through Paris, the Alps, Italy and then Greece, along the way picking up three young girls in a clapped-out Morris Minor and a young American pop star on the run from her domineering mother, and all to the strains of a hit-filled score featuring: In the Country, Summer Holiday, I Could Easily Fall in Love with You, Bachelor Boy, Move It, Living Doll, The Young Ones and On the Beach. A real taste of Great British nostalgia. 5th April - Opening Night Offer TICKETS £10 . 6th to 9th April TICKETS £12 Crich Glebe Field Centre 3rd March 2018 7:30 pm DaleDiva in Concert Derbyshire’s leading female 4 part close harmony choir is performing in Crich to help raise funds for DayCare at the Glebe. Musical Director. See DaleDiva in action to see if you agree! Suitable for those aged 5 and over.
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Welcome to a new season at Bakewell Old House Museum. We may be closed for winter but always busy with maintenance and preparation for our visitors in 2018. We throw open our doors on 25th March 11am – 4pm and your entrance tickets last a year. Such great value for families. New for 2018. Builders have worked hard over the winter months and in freezing conditions to replace our muddy gravel forecourt with beautiful cobblestones. This has greatly improved the front entrance and access areas of this historic site. We are also looking forward to new exhibitions and events this year with the “Memory House” displaying an evocative exhibition “The Mysterious Peak District”. Curator Keith How explains. “This is an evocation of the ancient land. A season long installation of artworks, photography, maps, artefacts and information about Stone Circles, Burial Mounds and Ley Lines in and around Bakewell and the Peak District”.
Peak District view – painting by Keith How.
1920s costumes on display
Keith How and Billy Bye have been working on this project for five years since the exhibition "Mysterious Derbyshire" in "Photogallery", Bakewell. Over three years ago the artistic duo showed "Spirits" at the Gallery in Repton with the Peak District as it's theme. In 2016 Keith and Billy had a critically acclaimed, open-air exhibition at Arbor Low Stone Circle. Also on display a stunning exhibition of costumes and accessories from the 1920s and 30s. Glamorous evening gowns, think Peaky Blinders, some of which are recent donations and have never been displayed before.
Crich Tramway Village offers one of Derbyshire’s great family days out, where you can step back in time.
Trams run to and fro down a period street, passing under the Bowes-Lyon Bridge and climbing a mile and a half of track that provides breathtaking views of the surrounding Derbyshire countryside. Experience the fascinating Woodland Walk & Sculpture Trail, which winds its way back to the village, or remain on the tram and be dropped off outside The Red Lion Pub and Tearooms, before visiting the fascinating Exhibitions and Workshop Viewing Gallery. There are also picnic areas and indoor and outdoor play areas to keep the children entertained. New for 2018, is the installation of a series of external First World War commemorative sculptures along the Woodland Walk and Sculpture Trail. The tram depots have been refurbished for 2018, to provide better insulation and interpretation displays. Exhibitions include the Century of Trams exhibition, which shows the progress from horse drawn to electric trams. Look out for our special events throughout the year, including World War II Home Front and Steampunk events plus family favourites, Beside the Seaside and Starlight Spectacular. (A full list of events are on the website). Pre-booked groups of ten or more receive discounted rates. Details can be found on the website. The Village is open daily from 17th March until 4th November 2018 from 10am. For more details Tel: 01773 854321 or visit www.tramway.co.uk. With thoughts turning to spring, Norma Gent is now taking bookings for her special day workshop on Saturday 10th March. From beginners to the more experienced, Norma will develop your love for art. Contact Norma Gent at 2 The Galleries, New Lane Alfreton or call 01773 836907.
Norma Gent Derbyshire Artist
◆ Pets, Portraits, Scenes, Still Life, Executive Caricatures, Victorian Life.
Calling all KIDS pop along at Easter and let your creativity run wild. Design Challenge – create a time travel machine using popular building bricks. Work stations are around the museum for kids of all ages.
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As the last term drew near, we asked some of our students what the Kip Effect had done for them.
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Their answers surprised us! We expected a list of things they could now achieve and what they were better and more confident at, but all those we asked said things about the difference in parts of their lives, particularly social lives, that we hadn’t considered as a benefit before. At Kip we measure things in terms of academic progress, but our students find it is more about which table they sit on for maths, which group they are moved into for English and even the realisation that a long held dream of a future career is now actually achievable. Young people want to ‘belong’ to a group, to identify with the ‘cool’ kids in the class, or simply to have a solid group of friends to hang out with and be accepted by. For many of our students their teachers spot their improvement and move them up in sets or at Primary school to a new table. The impact on their day to day lives is much more profound. Here are some of their stories…
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Poppy joined Kip 4 years ago. She was 3 years behind in both maths and English. Her confidence was so low that she would often type an answer into the computer and then be too afraid to press ‘enter’, such was her fear of failure. As her confidence and ability improved she found her Maths too easy, and after some negotiations between Kip and the school, gradually moved up three sets in Maths. Now she is on target for a ‘5’ at GCSE in Maths and English. In her words… It was great moving up because I could really feel my confidence growing. I joined the choir and had a part in the school play. I couldn’t have done it without Kip. I am a new person! Oliver is in year 10; he started two years ago with a Maths level of year 5. He is now working on material with Sue at Kip that puts him on target for a GCSE grade ‘5’ next year. He is massively more confident and by his own admission when he came to us, he didn’t mix much with other students. In his words… I really believe I can get a grade good grade next year and I always wanted to be a chef, but needed a ‘5’ in Maths and English. I didn’t think I had a hope of going to college, but now I can start to look and apply for the course I want. I never told anyone my dream because it was just a dream, now I can do it, I know I can. I am mates with a whole new set of friends and we go and do football together at the weekend. I also like music and a couple of the others are starting up a band, so I am asking for keyboard lessons for Christmas. I am a different person from when I first came to Kip. The team at Kip would like to thank all our parents and mainstream teachers for all their support and a huge WELL DONE to all our students.
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T Morley Hayes Launch New Lifestyle Golf Memberships for 2018 Following the success of its Lifestyle Golf Membership, which was launched in 2017, Derbyshire golf complex Morley Hayes is expanding its membership offerings with the introduction of three new Lifestyle Membership categories.
he launch of the three new categories, which will be available from April 2018, means that Morley Hayes will have a package to suit every golfer from the casual player to the hardcore golf addict. For the golfer that only plays once or twice a week, the flexible points-based membership is the best option as it offers all the benefits of a regular membership, but at the lowest cost. For the golfer that plays more regularly, Morley Hayes has introduced the new unlimited golf membership options. The completion of a full course buggy path set for 2018 also means that golf buggies will now be available all year round. Commenting on the introduction of the new membership categories, Daniel Delaney, golf operations manager at Morley Hayes, said: “The introduction of the Lifestyle Golf Memberships to Morley Hayes this year has been a great success. The flexible points based memberships have proved very popular, allowing our members to gain an official CONGU handicap and play in weekly handicap qualifying competitions throughout the summer and winter. “Morley Hayes offers the full course all year round, which enables members to get the maximum playing benefits for their annual membership fees. There are no temporary tees or greens on the Manor Course during the winter months and no teeing up or using mats on the fairways either. “The three new membership categories will offer unlimited golf with packages starting from only £695.00. “It is an exciting time for golf at Morley Hayes, as we opened our doors to the Lifestyle members and allow them to experience the great facilities and customer service we are renowned for.” Morley Hayes is a hotel, restaurant and golf complex set in the picturesque Derbyshire countryside. It boasts a luxury AA four-star, 32-bedroom hotel and three restaurants, including the award-winning Roosters Bar and Dovecote Restaurant. Morley Hayes features a short 9-hole Tower Course and an 18-hole Championship-length Manor Course, providing opportunities for golfers of all abilities to practise their game or play competitively. There is also a driving range, The East Midlands Golf Academy, a purpose-built pavilion, Spike Bar and golf shop. For more information on the Lifestyle Membership categories at Morley Hayes, visit www.morleyhayes.com/page/golf.html or call the Golf shop on 01332 782000.
January Music Competition Winner Our thanks to all those who entered the Music Competition in the January edition of Country Images. Many said “it was ‘a little different’ and made a change from normal quizzes. We had a great laugh marking them up but, the entry that encompassed all that we wanted was Roger Morgan in Derby. His entry is below. Cosmetics: Behind the painted smile-Isley Brothers. Lipstick powder and paint- Shakin Stevens. Lipgloss-Pulp. Painted lady-Elton John. Kiss and Make up- St Etienne. ( funny one)- ‘Cologne’ again naturalyGilbert O Sullivan. Sport: Sailing-Rod Stewart. The Boxer-Simon & Garfunkel. Keep on Running-Spencer Davis Group. Bicycle Race-Queen. Kung Fu Fighting-Carl Douglas. ( funny one)-Its ‘Training’ again-Supertramp. Wildlife: Werewolves of London-Warren Zevon. Wild horses-The Rolling Stones. Albatross-Fleetwood Mac. The Lion Sleeps Toningh-Tight Fit. Fox on the Run- Sweet. ( funny one)-Wicheta ‘Lion’ Man- Glen Campbell.
Transport: 2,4,6,8, Motorway- Tom Robinson Band. Little Red Corvette- Prince National Express- The Divine Comedy. Joe le TaxiVanessa Paradis. Leaving on a Jet Plane- John Denver. ( funny one)-I’ll do my Crying on the ‘Train’The Everly Brothers. Clothing: Rasberry Beret-Prince. Itsy Bitsy Teenie weenie Yellow Polka dot Bikini- Brian Hyland. Forever in Blue Jeans-Neal Diamond. You Can Leave Your Hat On-Tom Jones. Baggy Trousers-Madness. ( funny one)-I Never Felt More Like ‘Slinging These Shoes’-Guy Mitchell. Universe: I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trouper-Hot Gossip. Across the Universe -The Beatles. Supermassive Black Hole-Muse.
Another Girl Another Planet- The Only Ones. Space Oddity-David Bowie. ( funny one)- Its All About That ‘Space’Meghan Trainor. These are the ones we would have put! Cosmetics::” Making Up is hard to Do” Neil Sedaka. Sport: The winner pinched our answer with “Its training again” Supertramp. Great minds eh? Wildlife: “Dust on the wing” Kansas. Transport: “Fuel for Love” Lord Huron. Clothing: “You picked a fine time to leave me loose heel” Kenny Rodgers. Universe: “It Doesn’t Matter Anymore” Paul Anka.
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Love it or loath it you can not ignore the fact that the A38, when it’s on form, has reduced journey times in our part of the county. We had a table booked at the Kinara in Willington and on a chilly Tuesday evening the relaxed drive from Ripley to the restaurant, situated on The Castle Way in the centre of the village, was less than 40 minutes. The night was getting colder as we hurried through the restaurant entrance in to the reception area and bar. After a warm and friendly greeting we cast our eyes over the well stocked bar which boasted an impressive selection of beers and spirits that included a dozen or more varieties of gin. With the introductions over, we were shown to our table in the spacious dining area. The interior has been decorated with a light and thoughtful touch using a reduced colour palate on everything from the accent wall finish to the linen napkins. In Hindi, Kinara means at the edge and is usually used to mean the edge of water and this is emphasised in one of the large pieces of wall art in the restaurant. The unobtrusive background music is classical Indian that has been given a Bollywood twist. This further enhanced the relaxed atmosphere. We ordered poppadoms and the mixed pickle tray to pick at while we read through the menu. The poppadoms were warm, fresh, crisp and melted in the mouth. The accompanying variety of pickles and dips was so tasty and different that we took our time to nibble while we decided what to order. The Kinara is an authentic Indian restaurant and this is reflected in the number of fish and vegetarian dishes that are available. After a lot of deliberation Susan chose the prawn puri as her starter. This was pan fried prawns who’s delicate flavour was not overwhelmed by the blended spices they were cooked in. The dish was finished with fresh lemon juice and fresh green coriander. It was served on a puri; an unleavened, deep-fried bread. I selected one of the vegetarian dishes: 3 medallions of aloo tikki. This is Indian snack food. Mashed potato is blended with spices, coated with spiced gram flour and carefully pan fried until golden. The warmth of the spices was tempered by a cool salad of green peas,
chickpeas and spinach accompanied by a smooth yoghurt and tamarind dressing. The lamb saagwala, a house special, was Susan’s main dish. This was a generous portion of a traditional home cooked dish full of authentic but mild, flavours; made with fresh spinach, onions, tomatoes and green chillies. The lamb was tender and the spinach, added at the last minute, retained its flavour and colour. The final ingredient, yoghurt, made this saagwala smooth and creamy. A Peshwari naan, rich with coconut, was the perfect partner for this dish. My selection was the butter chicken. The tender pieces of locally farmed chicken had been marinated and cooked in a charcoal tandoor oven. Then further cooked in, and served with, a slightly sweet and spicy tomato sauce made smooth with powdered cashew nuts. The sweetness was offset by a smokey, citrus note of, I think, fenugreek and lemon. Finished with a dash of cream and garnished with fresh coriander this was another generous portion I didn’t want to leave. Unable to resist kulfies, especially when flavoured with pistachio, we completed the evening by sharing 2 scoops of the delicious, milk rich, pale green, frozen desert. Everything about the Kinara reflects the owners’ passion to give the diner an enjoyable and memorable experience. The restaurant has a reputation of supporting local producers and takes great pride in its use of fresh ingredients. Everything is cooked to order so you can dictate the level of spice in your chosen dish. They even filter their own still and sparkling table water, presented in impressive proprietary bottles. The Kinara is a place where we will return, with friends, and spend the evening in a relaxed atmosphere enjoying superb Indian cuisine.
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SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT IS KEY TO HELPING COMBAT LONELINESS AT RICHMOND VILLAGES IN DERBYSHIRE From art, music and poetry to hand bell ringing and gardening clubs, there’s a wealth of stimulating new activities to discover at Richmond Villages. The long winter can be a difficult time for many, none more so than the elderly when loneliness can be hard to bear. Age UK estimates there are around 1.2 million older people in the UK who are chronically lonely. Retirement property round-up: prices from £185,000. Having worked hard all your life, retirement should be a time to take control and do those things you have always wanted to do, rather than having life dictated to you. Travel, explore, take up new interests, meet friends old and new. At Richmond Villages, there’s a wealth of new activities being offered to residents this year. From art, music and poetry to hand bell ringing and gardening clubs, there really is something for everyone, and what better way to try your hand at something different and meet new people?“Social engagement is really important and being part of the wider community is something we encourage all our residents to enjoy”.Around the different villages, there’s so much going on. At Richmond Aston-on-Trent the gardening club is getting ready for spring, while local school children will be visiting residents in the care home. “We all recognise the importance of staying physically active, but many of us forget the huge role that social and mental wellbeing play in our general health. It’s so important that care providers offer a varied range of activities, and the benefits are clear to see,” says Philippa Fieldhouse, managing director of Richmond Villages.“Our residents get involved in all sorts, helping them build new friendships alongside their existing ones.
means residents own a Village Suite at the heart of the village community, with all the facilities of the village centre close at hand. Everything is designed to help maintain independence. A Village Suite typically includes a lounge, kitchenette and en-suite bedroom, and to remove all the daily chores, there’s a service that includes all food, daily cleaning, laundry and utilities, freeing-up time to do those things you want to do. And for those that might need it, personal care is available from Richmond’s own domiciliary care team.
Assisted Living - by numbers Assisted Living at Richmond Villages has been described as more like living in a luxury hotel - perhaps this list of services is why! Laundry is collected and returned twice a week. Three meals a day are served either in your Village suite or in the restaurant. A village car and driver is available five days a week. Cleaning service - seven days a week 24hour access to the onsite care team. Some 35 activities, classes, outings and events organised every week
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Pretty Swish on Grosvenor Road, Ripley are now stockists of beautiful Peony lightweight scarves. From ditsy sprigs and pretty florals to retro art and animal prints, the latest collection will instantly uplift a spring/summer outfit.
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Above: Ben (left) and John Stevenson at BaselWorld, the world’s largest jewellery exhibition.
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KEEPING UP FAMILY TRADITIONS at DKJ Keeping up family traditions has been a priority in the life of Julie Hodgson, being in business for over 35 years. Nothing could be further apart than a doorstep milk delivery business and a garage, but none the less they are both here to see at Sawmills Garage!. Following on from her late father, Julie has made considerable changes to Sawmills Garage to accommodate almost every motorists needs with all work carried out by her son David, and Andrew a family friend of 27 years; together with part time help from older son Kenneth who has recently taken over some of the milk deliveries in Belper, Ambergate and Heage. From general servicing and repairs, clutch, gearbox and engine fitting to computer re-sets and diagnostic fault fi nding; you can also have tyres fitted, wheels balanced and aligned while you wait! Air conditioning these days is a must for most drivers and all repairs and re-gas are carried out here. Welding is another special service provided. The latest PRIORITY service is the modern DPF fi lter maintenance unblocking. These fi lters are very expensive to replace and it is a MUST for motorists doing short journeys to ensure preventive maintenance of the fi lters is regularly carried out. All this can be done by our experts. Don’t forget your vehicle’s health check from just £30 Please don’t hesitate to contact Julie or her team for any enquiries or advice you may need on 01773 689 072 or 07971 530 069. A true family business for your motoring needs and Doorstep Milk Deliveries.
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Century-old postcards of Burton unearthed in ancient album show slower pace of life where people had time to talk Fascinating bygone postcard images of Burton – found in an album that is more than 100 years old – highlight a time where people appeared to have more time for each other. The postcards were discovered at a free antiques valuation day at Teversal Vistors Centre, Sutton in Ashfield, by Hansons Auctioneers’ valuer Vanessa Savage. They are so special they are set to go under the hammer at the Etwall saleroom in March with an estimate of £200-£400.
Trent Bridge, Burton. Hansons
Mrs Savage said: “The postcards date back to around 1904 to 1907. They include pictures of Burton Market Place and Burton High Street, filled with horses and carriages. There is also a picture of a tram crossing Trent Bridge, which now carries four lanes of traffic. “It really is a wonderful old collection of more than 200 old postcards.” The pictures give a flavour of a quieter, slower, more relaxed pace of life - decades before smart phones and technology dominated every living moment and cars were roaring round every street corner. The postcard of a bustling Burton Market shows people taking time out to stand and chat to each other in mutual camaraderie. Charles Hanson, owner of Hansons Auctioneers, said: “Though life
Brewery from the Trent, Burton. Hansons
Market Place, Burton. Hansons
was far from easy back then, there were fewer distractions - no iPads or televisions, no smart phones or social media. In fact, instead of social media, people appeared to have a social life, even if it was only a stroll by the river.
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The Burton postcards make up just a small handful of the collection, which also includes several pictures of Nottingham, plus images of Grantham, London, Market Harborough, Stamford, Grimsby, Lincoln, Grimsby docks, Gowts Bridge, Lincolnshire, Peterborough, Southport and more. Plus, there are random pictures of actresses of the day, people in period clothing and even a handful of slightly saucy postcards showing couples canoodling and a man with three women above the words: ‘Three (Thee) Only I Love’. “I would imagine these postcards were collected over many years from holidays and visits to different towns and cities at a time when people rarely, if ever, went abroad,” said Mr Hanson. “Some have been posted and feature stamps and postmarks too. “With the emergence of instant messaging and social media apps, postcards are seen as a rather old-fashioned way of communication. And yet collections like this, which we can leaf through at our leisure, are a wonderful way to look back at our history.”
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