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Lead Smelters of The Peak District Lead mining was once a major industry of the Peak.

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T Main picture: Magpie Mine, one of the best preserved lead mines in the Peak District.

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was once the major supplier of lead in the world. There is the possibility of lead being dug from close to the surface in pre-Roman times, but it was one of the reasons why Rome decided to annexe Britain to its empire. There is a folk memory of a kind of concentration camp at Bradwell in the Hope Valley from which slaves were made to mine deep within the hillside.

Once dug from the bowels of the earth, lead needed to be changed from crude ore into a product that could be moulded or beaten into its useful final form. Ore came from the mines, whose remains still dot the fields and hillsides of the limestone-based White Peak.

Known as ‘bouse’ it was full of impurities and it was the job of women whose husbands toiled far underground to beat the ore bearing lumps of rock and wash the resulting powder in convenient streams, or specially made leats, channels flowing from small dams. More sophisticated methods used stone or wooden troughs called ‘buddles’, where water and ore flowed over baffles to catch the heavier particles of ore.

Lead mines were mostly run by one or two men at a time whose daily output was often no more than a few hundredweights of ore bearing rock; a Peakland saying is that if a miner could fill his ‘weskit’ (waistcoat), pockets with ore, then he could finish for the day. Crushed and washed by miners’ wives, the ore was stored for safe keeping in a coe, one of the small barn-like buildings that still dot the fields above places like Bonsall or Wirksworth. A fine example of one of these stores stands beside the B5056 Bakewell to Ashbourne road, about a quarter of a mile south of the Miners’ Standard pub outside Winster. Railings have replaced the stout wooden doors, but it is easy to visualise miners pouring their ore through a slot in the back wall, into an early form of night safe.

Periodically lead agents would collect the results of miners’ toil. They were an important link in the chain but often had an unpopular reputation for their so-called unscrupulous dealings and price fixing, but without them the ore would never find its way to its final markets.

Trains of pack-ponies employed by the agents carried the crushed and washed ore to smelters sighted on the surrounding hills. Routes taken by the ponies can often be traced by the number of Jaggers’ Lanes that appear throughout our region, such as in Darley Dale, or Ashover.

The word Jagger is thought to come from the Old German word Jaeger, a breed of small tough ponies used by huntsmen.

With only one recognisable example, Peakland lead smelters have all but disappeared, the only clue to their whereabouts being marked on the map by the number of times the words Bole Hill appear on Ordnance Survey maps. Bole is an old word for a primitive open smelting hearth where lead ore and kindling were mixed together on top of a stone hearth.

As the fire burned and fanned by the wind, it generated sufficient heat to melt the lead, separating it from impurities allowing the molten lead to flow into a suitable collecting dish. Later bellows were used to create extra draught so greater heat, but even so open hearth methods were slow and inefficient.

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smelting were developed which became known as cupolas, or reverberatory furnaces. Basically in this type of furnace the fuel, coal which was plentiful to the east of the Peak District, was burned in a grate separated from the ore by a firebridge.

Flames passed over the firebridge and ‘reverberated’ from the roof of the hearth, heating the lead ore, causing the lead to separate from the waste material, before passing through flues to a tall chimney built to provide the necessary draught.

The resulting slag or waste was either raked or drawn off, while the molten lead ran into a receptacle. In later furnaces the flues were extended to cool and condense escaping lead vapour which was given off along with waste gasses. As the condensed lead ended up clinging to the sides of the flue it was someone’s, usually small boys’ job to scrape it from the brick or stonework. Unfortunately not only did they then come into contact with potentially poisonous lead, but with numerous other lethal substances which had a saleable interest to the smelter’s owner. Flues in Derbyshire smelters would meander over anything up to half a mile or so beneath surrounding fields before they reached the chimney, unlike those in the Yorkshire Dales that can still be traced,

running for several miles up then out on to the fell tops. The reason for the difference in flue design is because unlike the Derbyshire smelters that ran on coal, those in Yorkshire had to rely on burning peat which being less heat efficient, would require a considerably greater flow of air in order to produce anything like enough heat.

One of the many environmentally unfriendly side effects of lead smelting is the way lead fumes spilling out on to the surrounding fields poisoned the grass. Any cattle eating this poisoned grass would become very sick and probably die and in Derbyshire this became known as ‘bellands’, a kind of stiffening of the joints. Farmers kept their stock away from tainted ground by surrounding it with stone walls and planting shelter belts of trees.

At aptly named Spitewinter on the highest point of the A632 Matlock to Chesterfield road, Belland Lane links the A632 to the B5057 from Two Dales, a sure hint that the soil around about was once severely poisoned. With the passage of time and regular rainfall, local grazing no longer gives cattle this dread disease.

Right: The pub in Winster takes its name from the ore measure ’The Ore Standard’.

Below: A hint that the soil was once contaminated.

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Remains of the largest smelter in The Peak stands at the highest point of the Matlock to Chesterfield road at Spitewinter.

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The chimney at Spitewinter. The square format tells you it’s a Derbyshire design as round ones are Cornish.

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The front door about 1900

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The third son was Gilbert Chesshyre mercer and gentleman, who in 1696 married an heiress of considerable fortune, Catherine, daughter of Revd.

Thomas Meynell of Langley, of which place he was both rector and lord.

With the death of his grandson in 1758, his estate was split nine ways, two parts coming to the descendants of the marriage. The family were well established in the parish of St. Werburgh, but Gilbert and Catherine, determined to have a new house, chose a plot – possibly close to the family’s previous residence – on the corner of Friar Gate and Ford Street. The house was probably begun at the time of their marriage, although to subsequent generations of Derby residents it was known as The Queen Anne House.

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Its first known appearance on record, however is in a document of 1702.

This new house, no. 25, Friar Gate, was exceedingly handsome and well proportioned, and represented the finest quality money could buy in late seventeenth century Derby. Had it survived it would probably have been listed Grade II*. It was of brick, three storeys, and five bays wide under a hipped roof. It was a building of some architectural pretension with stone dressings: quoins, bolection moulded architrave surrounds to the windows, punctuated with keyblocks. The central entrance was embellished by grooved rusticated sweeps, Doric columns and a modillion frieze. The roof was also supported on modillions and was crowned by impressive cruciform-plan stacks. Indeed, the style resembled a mature development of Franceys’ House in Market Place and may well have been by the same (unknown) hand.

garden. It is close in design to that at Tissington Hall, datable to the same period. In 1938, this ended up in the museum, but presents a problem, for the coat-of-arms on it read oddly. The cast crest of an unicorn’s head erased collared and chained is fine, and may relate to the unofficial arms used by the Chesshyres, but the original shield has been at some stage removed and replaced by a thin iron confection looking like an incandescent light bulb, bearing the device vert on a chevron between three stags statant or as many trefoils slipped gules. Since I have known it, this has been tinctured to conform with the arms of Robinson of Yorkshire, but these may not have been the original colours. Presumably the

shield was changed after the Chesshyres and Cheneys left.

At Gilbert’s death his three parts of the Langley estate was re-divided between his daughters Dorothy and Catherine.

The latter died unmarried in 1764, leaving her entire estate, including the Dalbury Lees land and a single part of Langley, to a close friend - how close in not clear, but she was only 22 when she inherited from her father - Dr. Philip Gell, who was her tenant at Kirk Langley. His son, by Honor Borough of Castlefields, was another Philip who, in 1789, on the death of a relative, inherited thereby another half of a third of Langley.

Nor do we know anything of the interior, bar the fact that there was a timber staircase with turned balusters on a string, fielded panelling (which extended to the main rooms) and chimneypieces carved from local polished limestones.

Franceys’s house boasted a frescoed ceiling by Francis Bassano, so it would not be beyond the bounds of possibility that this house boasted something along the same lines. There was also a garden extending down to the Markeaton Brook by Willow row (then still so embowered) and a fine wrought iron railing protected the street front from the vicissitudes of Derby Football.

The couple’s only son was another Gilbert who, with his two sisters, inherited a portion of Langley in 1758.

Born in 1694, he managed to acquire a small landed estate west of Radbourne and thus described himself as ‘of Dalbury Lees, Esq.’. He was a colonel in the militia raised by the 3rd Duke of Devonshire to oppose the southward progress of Bonnie Prince Charlie in the autumn of 1745. His reward was the high shrievalty in 1759, shortly after he inherited his share of the Langley estate. However, in 1761 he disinherited his surviving son (who died unmarried in 1764) and died eighteen months later. He had married in 1720 Dorothy Beighton of Crich, and in 1744 clearly decided to improve the roof, installing fresh rainwater goods including a lead hopper clearly monogrammed:

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Meanwhile Catherine’s elder sister Dorothy inherited the Derby house and in 1753 married a neighbour, Henry Peach of Full Street, who died in 1758. By Peach she had six children, one born posthumously and including a pair of twins. Three years later, by now the inheritor of her portion of Langley she married Robert Cheney, by whom she had a son, Robert, born 1766. She lived in the family’s house in Derby with Peach, but two years into her second marriage she inherited her portion of Langley, which happened to include the hall, into which they moved, and where Cheney lived until his own death in 1809.

The irony of it all is that today, the site remains largely empty, the street not widened on that side to have necessitated its removal. Since 1938 the place where stood this splendid house has been nothing more than an unsightly car-park.

At this stage the impressive Derby house descended to Cheney’s eldest son, Maj. Gen. Robert Cheney (1766-1820), whilst Langley Hall was inherited by Dorothy’s eldest son

by Henry Peach, also Henry (17541833), a clergyman who had married the niece and co-heiress of Derby’s eminent Lunar Society co-founder, John Whitehurst, FRS. The Derby house was sold in 1820 to its tenant, Mrs. Harriet Bateman, from whom it passed in the 1830s to a surgeon, John Jones, who was succeeded by his accountant son, Joseph in 1849. In 1874 it was the home and office of attorney Francis Bassano, son of a musical family from Italy recruited to the King’s band by Henry VIII and long resident in Derby. An ancestor had been the artist who had painted Alderman Franceys’s ceiling in the saloon of his Market Place House. He let part of the house off as a flat, occupied for over twenty years by A J (Jack) Keene, the water-colourist son of photographer Richard Keene.

After the Bassanos, it became the St. Werburgh Church Institute, but in 1912 it was let to a Mr. Horridge and after him to dentist Gilbert Hunt.

By 1933 it had become empty as it had been earmarked for demolition to widen Ford Street, standing empty for some time prior to demolition on 29th March 1938. The late Rosemary Meynell, who had been inside the house in her youth (hence our scanty knowledge of the interior) maintained that there had been a move to have the house dismantled carefully and shipped to colonial Williamsburg, in the USA, for re-erection. If so, the war put paid to what would have been a much happier conclusion.

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Whilst out driving with my mother, I was taught to recognise all the makes and models of cars on the road - this was early 1950s, I might add, when the roads were still littered with vehicles from well before the war.

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Below: Inter-war RAC badge: cast & chromed £40

Consequently, I used to amuse myself by admiring cars, armed with some knowledge, when at some event I had quickly become bored with the main fare. This rapidly acquainted me with the tantalising array of bright metal and enamel badges sported on many cars. Most impressive were the sort of sports car, the front of which was embellished with a chrome-plated horizontal bar in front of the grille, mounted with an array of such badges.

The most obvious ones were the yellow-backed AA ones and the blue-backed RAC examples. They remind one that the fitting of badges to motor vehicles goes back to the early 1900s. In 1897 Frederick Richard Simms, who is often referred to as the father of the British motor industry, founded the Automobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland. The Automobile Club soon started to attract some of the most influential people of the era. In 1907 Edward VII became its patron. Thereafter the club became known as The Royal Automobile Club, more commonly referred to by the initials RAC. The first brass badges were made by Elkingtons and in good order will cost you £100 or more.

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An early AA badge signed Stenson Cooke/ Secretary £40 Inter-war AA badge £37 Rare Lancia owner’s badge £150 Advanced Motorist’s badge £15-20

In June 1905 another major British motoring club was formed, this was The Automobile Association. Like the RAC, it is also more commonly referred to by its initials.

In March 1906 the AA produced the very first motoring club badge. Earliest examples carried an impressed signature of the club's first secretary, Stenson Cooke. A little later, the badges also featured the word secretary.

The example shown, on offer at £40, looks a bit too good to be true to my eye; the engraving looks machine cut as well; hand engraving always has trailed-off ends.

The RAC soon acquired an impressive club in Pall Mall which still exists although, like the RAC, the badge represents what is essentially an insurance organisation which today has no connection whatever with the London clubs. Both AA and RAC badges are datable from the numbers stamped upon them. For instance, early AA ones run from 1 to 999,999 (1906-1930). More modern versions of both can go for between £5 and £20 depending on condition. At Bamfords we occasionally get pre-Great War AA and RAC badges (upwards of £40), but rarely others.

My father latterly sported one familiar to me, the Veteran drivers’ club: a ‘V’ with a central button denoting the number of years over which the member had been driving; a post-war example should cost in the £20-£30 bracket. Father also passed the Advanced Motorists’ Club exam, and bore their red, white and silver badge (earlier examples about £20), not to mention the Baltic Exchange Motoring Club! The latter would be very rare 34 | www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk

today, and command upwards of £80, but a Liverpool example was recently on offer for £70; the smaller the club, though, the rarer the badge and the higher the price; yet some go for less than £20. Civil Service Motoring Club badges, quite well cast, are surprisingly common, for instance.

There are also owner’s clubs for most significant marques, especially sports car marques. A common post-war MG one is likely to be £10-£20 only, although others carry a premium. Father belonged to the Packard Register, but I cannot recall there being a badge. The most expensive one I have come across recently is a Lancia Owner’s Club badge in only passable condition for £150.

Vehicle badges of course are not restricted to motoring clubs. They can, and often do, represent a wide range of hobbies and interests; regimental ones used to be very popular when the army was much larger. Being stuck on the front of a car, most tend to look aged, with chrome or brass oxidised or discoloured, and enamel chipped, and these are the ones to avoid unless you spot a real rarity. As ever, always go for those in the best condition and there are a lot out there – numerous car owners got their badges and never got round to having them put on (or didn’t particularly want to).

Again, smaller, long-since amalgamated regiments are the most sought after, along with guards regimental badges and those of the Parachute Regiment, although the latter are surprisingly common yet can go for more than £50.

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could take hours, but now the way seems to mostly go beneath the city. Joining the outer ring of motorways we were soon at Enfield to the north-west for an overnight stay at the Johnstown Estate Hotel. If as I suspect, the hotel is an example of the way the Celtic Tiger economy is back on its feet, then all is well for our near neighbour. We were treated almost like royalty, an introduction to the superlative standard of hospitality on offer throughout the island of Ireland.

Easy going along the almost empty motorway network took us westwards and north over the border to Enniskillen and back into the United Kingdom. This was our first experience of the so-

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called invisible border that is giving Prime Minister Theresa May a few headaches. Since the Good Friday Agreement there are no longer border posts such as the one where during the ‘Troubles’ a colleague and I were held at gunpoint while our details were checked – apparently the hire car we were driving was the same model and colour as one used in a bit of bother earlier in the day! Now the only way of telling which country you are in is by the road signs changing from kilometres to miles and vice-versa.

Enniskillen is a small market town on the banks of a short stretch of river between Upper and Lower Lough Erne. An old fashioned sort of place that seems to happily cater for the needs of country-folk, it came as a shock to see the war memorial where thirty years ago fifteen people were killed by a bomb on Remembrance Sunday. There is nothing to commemorate the tragic event, but that is probably the way the Irish are trying to overcome their unhappy past.

The actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales cruised around the nearby lough in one of their TV

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Moving north and westwards again, but back into southern Ireland we were greeted by the sort of weather the Irish refer to as ‘a gentle sort of day’, in other words rain on and off, the way Ireland keeps its grass green. Making our way to the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’, we followed the coast, past tiny white-cottaged villages and deserted beaches backed by crashing surf.

It was here that we took a wrong turning at Maas. It led us along ten miles of twisting single-track road with only one passing place for the whole journey.

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Hillsborough Castle Fortunately this was the only place we met another vehicle.

After lunch at Dunglow, a typical Irish village where every other shop doubled up as a pub (the others were betting shops), we moved on through Glenveagh National Park. This is an area of wild moorland topped by Erigal Mountain. At its highest point, a perfect cone of quartz-like stones overlooked Lough Nacung.

Donegal town was our headquarters for the next couple of days. This market town is the central point for County Donegal. It sits at the head of a wide bay-like estuary fed by the River Eske, with scenery very similar to Devon’s south coast. Overlooking the sea, what was once a Franciscan monastery is now the town’s tranquil graveyard, and, like Enniskillen, the place has a castle dominating the town centre.

Mostly Jacobean on earlier foundations, it was once the home of the O’Donnell’s, good and bad; one of the latter, Red O’Donnell unsuccessfully attacked it on behalf of James II in the seventeenth century. Constantly wary of attack, anyone using the garderobe (lavatory), was kept safe from receiving an arrow in a very delicate place by the exterior drain having a sharp bend to prevent arrows reaching anyone sitting on the ‘throne’.

Derry-Londonderry city wall gateway

Donegal Castle

Donegal was another place where we met friendly people who made us feel at home. The briefest smiles on our part would be turned into a welcome excuse to stop and chat. We looked into a restaurant at lunchtime and although it seemed full, the proprietor immediately cleared a table for us and though he was busy, he managed to chat to us as though we were long-standing customers.

By going south we turned back into Northern Ireland in order to spend a few hours in Derry– Londonderry. With its background as a hotbed of murder and mayhem, we quickly realised that this is now history and the town and its people are simply getting on with their lives. The town centre is surrounded by ancient walls and was busy with shoppers and sightseers enjoying the brief sunshine,

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or strolling along the river front towards the Peace Bridge. Built to connect the two halves of DerryLondonderry, pedestrian only, it curves like a sinewy letter ‘S’, supported by cables connected to two curving arms.

In the afternoon we joined the local train as far as Colerain. Running beside sandy beaches with open sea on the left and rolling hills to the right, Michael Palin called it the ‘Most Scenic in Britain’.

Admittedly an attractive ride, but even though he comes from Sheffield, one doubts if he has ever ridden on the Derby/Matlock Line.

The last part of the trip was a couple of night’s stay in Belfast. Called the Stormont Hotel, it sits directly opposite a long drive that climbs to the seat of government in Northern Ireland. Amazingly considering Ulster’s disturbed history, it is possible to walk through the miles of richly wooded parkland covering the slopes below Stormont – which we did.

Derry-Londonderry, the Peace Bridge Hillsborough Castle where important recent events such as the Good Friday Agreement were thrashed out, is the Queen’s official residence in Northern Ireland. A late Georgian mansion is set amidst forested grounds intermingled with small gardens and ponds, it lies about 25 miles south of Belfast.

Originally the home of the Hills family who, falling on hard times, sold it to the British Government for £20,000.

Even though it was only a little way past midmorning, we had tea and scones with rich Irish butter and cream. This quirkiness so typically Irish, was continued by the odd appearance of formal headgear lying around in unexpected places; for example HRH Prince William’s RAF cap sits quietly in one room, and there is a Governor General’s ostrich feathered hat on the throne at the head of the most formal room in the place: one of HRH Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s frothy blue confections sits quietly on a side table, as though

waiting for her return.

Hillsborough has been visited by politicians and royalty over the years. We missed Prince Harry by exactly one week; he had been over to receive guests at a reception for young sports people. Politicians of all shades have stayed there to thrash out a safe future for the province. With beautiful gardens outside the French windows, it must have been the perfect place to work. One of the garden features, the mock Doric temple that sits above one of the lakes, was a particular favourite of the late Rt. Hon. Mo Mowlem M.P. when she was the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

An early start then the ferry to Cairn Ryan in Galloway followed by a long drive to reach the M6, eventually took us back to Matlock. Many thanks to Malcolm an excellent driver, even though he did manage to open up a new route by following a tenmile single track road!

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Gardening in July O with Mark

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ne of the most satisfying parts of my life is being asked to advise on really important projects. There are too many to mention in fact, but one just recently was being asked to come up with a planting scheme for Royal Derby Hospital’s Intensive Care Unit courtyard garden. If you have visited the hospital you would have seen several gardens. The one I’m involved in will only be seen by the patients and their visitors to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). If you are not sure where the ICU is; it’s on the second floor. That’s right, the second floor, which as you can imagine has its own challenges; mainly there are no borders only containers, paving and stone. Also, there is the problem of trying to get five, fifteen foot, birch trees onto the second floor. If you shared a lift with a huge tree one day when you visited, that was me. Happily, battling through the rain and planting up on my birthday I’ve finally finished the garden. So it will give much needed relief from being surrounded by equipment and four walls for patients, theirs visitors and the hard working staff.

Remember there are lots of NGS Open Gardens this month. So go and visit some. You may be inspired to open your own garden next year. Look out for yellow posters in garden centres and nurseries.

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· Spray apple trees and gooseberry bushes with a fungicide to help prevent mildew – Fungus Fighter is very good. · Keep looking out for woolly aphid as the recent weather has been perfect. Spray with a insecticide. · Start to lift early potatoes. · Sow a later crop of peas between the start and middle of July. · If you haven’t already, thin out heavy crops of apples, pears and plums by removing any weaker looking fruit. · Feed fruit trees and bushes with a liquid sulphate of potash, such as a tomato feed. · Feed tomato plants every time you water with a suitable tomato fertiliser. · Water celery plants regularly if we suddenly have hot, dry weather.

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Gardeners’ World Live has announced the winners of its prestigious Show Garden awards at the NEC, with two gardens scooping Platinum Awards, the highest available at the Show.

Assessors awarded Designer Alexandra Froggatt Platinum, the top honour for her creation, ‘The Watchmakers Garden’. The garden pays homage to Birmingham, the Show’s host city, by recreating a garden typical of a historic Jewellery Quarter craftsman’s back yard from the 19th century. The build was also named as ‘Best Show Garden’.

Alex’s Watchmaker’s Garden features heritage vegetables in a kitchen garden traditional of the era, as well as cottage garden flowers, naturalistic grasses and rustic paths and fences. The interactive watchmaker’s workshop features artefacts sourced from working jewellers in the district, and even from the city’s iconic St Paul’s Church, which is nestled in the heart of the Jewellery Quarter.

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Alexandra Froggatt, winner of Best Show Garden, said: “There’s nothing more rewarding than seeing all your hard work and hours being recognised in such a way.

I’m thrilled at how the Show Garden has turned out, as it was an ambitious design. But with the help of my team, my family and the Jewellery Quarter BID, which has supplied the artefacts, we’ve created something really special and I can’t wait to see the visitors exploring and enjoying it.”

Bob Sweet, Horticultural Director at BBC Gardeners’ World Live, said: “ The finished gardens are an inspiration, finished to a very high standard and full of incredible ideas that visitors will be able to recreate at home.”

Plants that are a must this month: (cont’d) Verbena Bonariensis: Very popular herbaceous perennial with tall green sparsely-leafed stems and flat lavender purple flowers which attract butterflies and bees. Ideal for the back of a border as it will reach about 150cm (5ft). If this is too tall try Verbena Rigida, this will reach 60cm (2ft) both are classed as half hardy but planted in-between other plant it should have winter protection. TIP: Buy this now as when it comes into flower it’s usually sold out!

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“There’s nothing better than walking into a mucky stable or a mucky barn with a pitchfork and a wheelbarrow and cleaning it out”

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“There’s nothing like getting outside and having a bit of dirt under your nails to make you feel alive.”

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he feeling of writer and TV presenter Kate Humble who’s known mainly for specialising in wildlife and science programmes for the BBC. She’s also appearing in theatres around the country and will bring her show An Evening With Kate Humble to Derbyshire next month as part of the Buxton International Festival.

She broke off from preparing for that show to tell me how she thrives on live television, how appearing in front of an “Evening With” audience can be “scary“ and why she has a lifelong passion for mucking out.

Her appearance in Buxton will be one of a series of dates that she’s fitting in around her television work.

Kate takes to the stage only a couple of times a week to present an evening of stories and adventures that she’s experienced over a 20-year career in broadcasting.

The show is in two halves and during the interval Kate gets the audience to write down questions which she then goes on to discuss.

“I show video clips of some of the programmes that I’ve done and I talk about some of the madcap things that I’ve ended up doing in the name of a career,” says Kate.

“The second half for me is entirely unpredictable. There are still clips and stories but there’s also this lovely, unplanned element which is dependent on the audience, which I really enjoy.”

Kate admits being on stage is very different from appearing on TV: “It’s a lovely opportunity for me to be face to face with an audience. It’s quite scary.

I’m nervous before every single show. But it’s lovely to be able to have a more direct connection with the audience.”

Our chat actually started more than an hour-and-a-half later than scheduled. That was because Kate had to meet a deadline for an article she was writing for the Daily Telegraph.

She’s always been a freelance writer and had her first article published by the Telegraph in 1996. She admits her latest assignment was a tough one.

“My father died earlier this year and they asked me to write about that for their Father’s Day edition. It was a really important tribute to my dad and I hope it resonated with people dealing with the incredibly complex emotions that go alongside grief.”

Katherine Humble was born on 12 December 1968 in Wimbledon. She grew up in rural Berkshire in a house next to a farm. She had what she describes as a “proper childhood” – building camps, racing snails and climbing trees interspersed with trips to hospital to get patched up when she broke bones. She reckons she’s still a tomboy.

When she was 18 she left home and did odd jobs so that she could fund a year travelling in Africa. She wrote for the Telegraph about her adventures. Then she got her first job at the BBC, working as a runner on Animal Hospital and then The Holiday Programme.

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programme’s editor realised that Kate would make a good presenter despite her reservations.

“It was never my plan or intention and when people say ‘how can I have your job?’, the truthful answer is the best thing to do is not to want my job and it might just come along by accident.

“In my case it came along because it’s that awful trite line of, I was in the right place at the right time and I could offer the thing that they wanted, which was somebody who was a genuine traveller who enjoyed doing things at a local level. The first bit of filming I did was doing a local journey around France telling people about it. And it went from there.”

Since then she’s become well-known for appearing on programmes such as Springwatch, Wild In Africa and Volcano Live. She feels that she’s been “very lucky” to have done lots of different things.

“I’ve done documentary series that I’m enormously proud of, things like Living With Nomads (a BBC2 series in 2015, filmed in some of the world's most remote wildernesses) and Extreme Wives (a 2017 series exploring the roles of women in three communities in Kenya, Israel and India).

“I’ve also loved doing things like Animal Park (a BBC documentary series about the lives of keepers and animals at Longleat Safari Park, Wiltshire) which I’m still doing after 20 years. I’m also very lucky that new projects come along. I’m always challenged and excited by those.

“I’m very careful about what I choose to do and I only take on projects that I genuinely care about because I think the audience are very smart – they can spot somebody who’s just taking a job because they want to be on telly rather than really believing in the programme.”

Live television is known to be hugely problematic but it holds no fears for Kate.

“People always say what happens when something goes wrong? Well, in my view nothing goes wrong – you’re just showing exactly what’s happening. Some things may not go according to plan and you may not be able to predict everything, particularly when you’re dealing with wildlife which jolly well does what it wants.

working farm which is also a thriving rural skills centre. It’s home to a couple of tenant farmers, their sheep and cows. A range of courses is on offer including building a dry stone wall and making sausages. You can even stay on Kate’s farm.

So, onto the thorny issue of mucking out: why is Kate so passionate about it?

“Because there’s something incredibly satisfying about rather menial, manual tasks that give you an instant sense of achievement. There’s nothing better than walking into a mucky stable or a mucky barn with a pitchfork and a wheelbarrow and cleaning it out.

“It’s hard work and you sweat and you get filthy but with every forkful you’re making a tiny difference. It’s a little sense of achievement.

“I know it sounds completely daft but it’s like cleaning out a cupboard or doing the housework. You do it and you instantly see the results of your labours whereas so often you can spend hours in front of a computer and feel like you’ve achieved very little. So that’s why I love manual labour.

“I love weeding my garden for the same reason.

It’s back-breaking and not terribly exciting but the sense of achievement and the sense of having done something really useful at the end of it is great.”

At that point Kate has to dash off. There’s just time to speak about her future plans. She is filming another series of Animal Park which will be broadcast next month and she is also making a new series for Channel 5. This follows the fortunes of people who want to make a fundamental change to the way they live.

“I hope it’s going to be an inspiring, uplifting series of stories about people who’ve followed their dreams,” says Kate.

An Audience With Kate Humble is at Buxton Opera House on Thursday 11 July.

She seems to be the ideal person to present it as she’s been following her dreams for the past 20 years – even if it means mucking out and getting dirt under her nails.

“But that’s the exciting thing about doing something like televising wildlife live. And that’s why I love it so much. It’s unpredictable, it’s exciting, there’s a very good reason for it to be live. You want people to be there, to feel absolutely connected with the action.

So as far as I’m concerned it’s a lovely, exciting way of broadcasting. I don’t see it as something that’s problematic at all.”

When Kate was 23 she married television producer Ludo Graham. Nine years ago they moved from Chiswick, west London to a smallholding in the village of Trellech, Monmouthshire. They live with a variety of feathered and furry livestock and three dogs.

In 2011 they set up Humble by Nature, a 117-acre

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Although the Ordnance Survey and the County Council use the first letter ‘e’ in the ‘greave’ part of Youlgreave, the locals usually spell the name Youlgrave, but in any case prefer to call it ‘Pommy’ just to confuse visitors! The village proudly maintains its independent water supply brought by pipeline from a source beneath gritstone moorland to the south. Before this came about Youlgreave had a severe water problem, especially in dry summers when many of the village wells dried up. The circular stone tank opposite the one-time co-op shop, now a youth hostel, was used to store piped water which first

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came to the village in 1829. Now every house has piped water like the rest of us. Although the custom is possibly much older, the five village wells have been dressed in floral motives since 1829 during the week following the Saturday nearest to St John the Baptist’s Day.

ere is a lovely walk following dales on either side of Youlgreave, one of the largest yet unspoilt village in the Peak.

To its north is Lathkill Dale which is the first dale to be followed; a short stroll along the village street leads to a woodland path into Bradford Dale which is followed back to the starting point of the walk, and also the point where streams flowing down the twin dales, meet.

Deep pools in the River Lathkill are stocked with trout below Conksbury Bridge and monster-sized fish can sometimes be spotted lazing beneath the narrow pack-horse bridge below Raper Lodge, making a popular spot for children. Fishing and the immediately riverside meadow is strictly private, but you will get an excellent view as you follow the path beyond Alport, the starting point of the walk.

Youlgreave has several buildings worth more than a passing glance, from farmhouses within the immediate confines of the village to its twostoried hall, the garden of which is occasionally open to the public, especially during well dressing week. The church is a delight and contains the tombs of several medieval knights alongside its Norman font. Unusual in its design, the font bowl is supported by a central column together with four small shafts. An upside down dragon on the main bowl holds a smaller bowl in its mouth, thought to have been made to hold consecrated oil. The font has a curious history, having once stood in Elton church. The east window was designed by William Morris and Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Church records from

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The two dales meet and their waters mingle at Alport. The quiet hamlet is a little way from the road, a pleasant group of stone cottages with attractive gardens; a hump-backed bridge carries the side road and downstream, the remains of a grinding mill is where lead ore was prepared for smelting. Observant passers-by will see a curious notice on the gable-wall of a farm on the Youlgreave road, warning vagrants to keep away.

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From the road go through the gate on your left beyond the farm house. Follow the field path with the River Lathkill on your right, up-stream until it reaches a path and track junction.

It is worth making a short diversion at this point by going to your right, down a short path as far as an ancient pack-horse bridge over the River Lathkill. Children especially will enjoy looking out for trout lazing beneath the bridge. Return to the path/track junction.

2. Walk uphill past Raper Lodge, (the cottage on your left). Follow the surfaced track, uphill

7. Cross the stone bridge and go left along the riverside track.

3. At the staggered cross roads in front of the church, turn right and walk through the village for about half a mile. Ignore the footpath sign on the left between two rows of cottages.

Continue along the road as far as the end of the village.

Look out for the water tank that once supplied the village with pure water.

Nowadays Youlgreave enjoys piped water like the rest of us, but their’s still comes from a spring on Stanton Moor.

4. A little way beyond the last house in the village, go through a kissing gate set back on your left.

Small ponds along the dale were created to conserve water for the wheel driving the ore-mill in Alport. One of them, closer to Youlgreave, has been converted into the village swimming pool. (But don’t expect the water to be warm!).

8. Reaching a stone clapper bridge, cross and go through a stile on your right. Continue to follow the River Bradford, downstream until it reaches the outskirts of the lower part of Youlgreave.

9. Cross the side road and go through the gate opposite.

10. Continue to follow the river, still downstream, past an attractive packhorse bridge (but do not cross).

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk JUNE 28 John Barrowman: Fabulous 29 What’s Love Got To Do With It? 30 Gladys Knight JULY Il Divo: Timeless 2 The B-52s 3 Kelly Jones 03 Jul 2019 4 Here Come The Boys 6-7 Dinosaur World Live 8-13 Club Tropicana 10 Lea Salonga 12 Nottingham Chamber Music Festival: Leonore Piano Trio 13-14 In The Night Garden Live 15-20 Avenue Q 19-20 Confetti and Chaos 22-27 Stones In His Pockets 27 The Magic Lantern Backstage Tour - Suitable for all ages, Ezekial Bone’s Magic Lantern Backstage Tour gives you the chance to explore behind the scenes at the Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall. You will discover how our shows are created, as well as finding out about the venue’s fascinating heritage.

30 to Aug 3 Wait Until Dark AUG 2 That’ll Be The Day 3 Trevor Horn 6-10 Murder With Love 06 Aug - 10 Aug 2019 9 - 10 The Magic Lantern Family Backstage 13-17 Anybody For Murder 14-15 Tabby McTat Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre.

01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org JULY 5 Buxton Festival Foundation Concert- New Voices 6 Mark Cocker & Friends with Jean McNeil & Tessa Boase 6 Cape Town Opera - Out Of Africa Haddon Hall, Bakewell 7 Amanda Foreman Amanda Foreman’s dazzling debut biography burst onto the literary scene in 1998 winning the Whitbread Prize. Made into a film – The Duchess – with Keira Knightley, the book has continued to genuinely earn the title ‘bestseller’.

Amanda Foreman joins us from New York to discuss the life of Georgiana in a companion piece to our specially commissioned opera of the same name. Join Georgiana librettist Michael Williams for a lively and erudite discussion on this enigmatic and captivating Derbyshire and British icon.

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Included in the event among others will be: * Lizzie Ball, James Pearson and Milos Milivojevic Songbook with Strings * Mill Songs & Georgian Chamber Music *Cape Town Opera - Grace Notes * Lucy Worsley Queen Victoria – daughter, wife, mother and widow * Kabantu * Alistair McGowan * Anna Pasternak * Melvyn Bragg National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company 24-29 July The Mikado 25-28 The Gondoliers 27 The Yeoman of the Guard 27 HMS Pinafore 27 The Pirates of Penzance 29 Iolanthe( 2018) AUG 1-2 The Tiger Who Came to Tea 4 Rhythm of the Dance 15 The Secret garden Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk JUNE 30 Peter Pan - Junior Ensemble Auditions 30 200 Years of Farm to Plate 30 Oakfest JULY 6 Sam Callahan Live 7 The Derby Charity Retro, New and Classic Car Show. From classic cars, retro vehicles, modern classics and lifestyle from the twenties to present day.

10 Michelangelo’s Pietà 12 In Conversation with Jo Jakeman and Roz Watkins 20 Out of the Box Summer Road Show Craft market, family fun & entertainment 21 Derby Caribbean Carnival. Watch the colourful parade process from Derby City Centre to Osmaston Park where a family fun day will be enjoyed by all ages. Take part in the carnival activities at the Market Place and Osmaston Park. Derby West Indian Community Association 21 Alvaston Park Community Fun Day. Lots of family fun!

24-27 Monsters, Myths and Mayhem 27 Floyd In The Flesh 30 to Aug 1 Superhero Picnic in the Park AUG 2-4 Dog Lovers Festival 2019 3 Derby Sound 5-10 Here Be Dragons!

Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk JUNE 26-28 Footloose - the Musical 26-28 Dancing Through Life: Caroline Green Dance & Theatre Arts JULY

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5 Desert Islands Flicks 6 The Death Show 10-13 American Idiot 18 Opal fruits 18 Tokyo Rose Part of Departure Lounge Festival 2019 Turn back the dial from 2019 to 1949. Iva Toguri d’Aquino stands accused of treason in one of the most controversial trials in American history. Faced with accusations of peddling Axis propaganda, Iva becomes known as the notorious Tokyo Rose – but was she the villain she was made out to be? Five female wartime disc jockeys spit piercing verse in a rap-packed musical broadcast going live in 5, 4, 3...

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You’re 18. You’re 100. What could you have in common? A show full of unlikely friendship and questions about ageing. Part of Departure Lounge Festival 2019.

Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk JUNE 28-29 MADD College: Annual Showcase 2019 28 Boar 29 Inside 30 Comedy Summerslam 2019 JULY 4 Urban Explorers 19 6 Lights, Camera, Dance!

10 The Big Chris Barber Band - 70th 12-14 SPLASH! 12-13 Sister Act 14 Stand in the Spotlight 2019 24 Playhouse Pride – Drama Workshop Playhouse Pride – Drama Workshop Part Of Nottingham Playhouse Pride 25 Boxes 25 Write Pride: Bonnie and the Bonnettes - The Bon Bon Cabaret 27 Sarah Keyworth: Dark Horse. You’ve seen her on Comedy Central, you’ve seen her on the BBC. Now see 2018 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and Nottingham-born rising star Sarah Keyworth’s debut hour. Join Sarah as she tells you about her life with an important little girl and her battle against every expectation of what being a girl means. Think Girls Just Wanna Have Fun but British, deadpan and in no way similar.

AUG 7-10 Coram Boy Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre JUNE 26-27 Dracula Rock Show 26 Sounds Like The Seekers JULY 3 - 6 Ripley & Alfreton Musical Theatre Sept 3 Popular Classics 8 Guitar Heroes 9 Jasper Carrott’s Stand Up & Rock 11 The Drifters

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The Darley Abbey-based group are to perform Frank Vickery’s Trivial Pursuits. It is nothing to do with the board game about general knowledge; it involves members of an amateur theatre company having a barbecue as their next play is to be announced. But the society’s business manager has promised four different shows and the plum roles to four different people.

The Marlowes presented Trivial Pursuits in the old Derby Playhouse Studio 27 years ago. That came as a surprise to Richard Astle who is directing his first production for the Marlowes although he has directed four plays for Allestree Theatre Group.

“Trivial Pursuits was chosen for a play reading at Allestree but we never did it because we didn’t have enough people. When the Marlowes needed a director for their summer production I thought of Trivial Pursuits. Here we’ve got enough people to cast it. The play is just right for the summer. It’s a really funny play and there’s a lot of opportunity for humour.”

Two of the cast of the 1992 production will again take to the stage in the play, Jenny McDonald and Marjorie Howarth.

Says Marjorie who has been with the Marlowes since 1985: “It’s essentially a 1980s play and you can’t update it because of the references to items that people don’t have now: video cassette recorders and TVs with aerials on the roof. We did have to explain to some of the younger members who (British tenor and actor) John Hanson was!”

Richard, who played Mr Kelvil MP in the Marlowes’ production of Oscar Wilde’s A Woman of No Importance last November pays tribute to his cast.

“It was a bit daunting directing for a group you’ve never directed before. You know how things work with other groups. But there are very well-defined roles with the Marlowes and it seems superbly organised.

The cast is spot-on from what I’ve seen so far.”

The Marlowe Players present Trivial Pursuits at Darley Abbey Village Hall from Tuesday until Saturday, July 23 to 27. For tickets call 07961 607372 or go to marlowe-players.co.uk.

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

From now onwards the summer visitors will continue to arrive, swallows swifts and martins as well as hosts of warblers, plus there’s always a chance to see a passing Osprey. Why not join us on one of our free beginners walks held on the first Sunday of every month? Booking is advisable as numbers are limited, contact Carsington 0330 678 0701. Future dates are, 7th July, 4th August.

Allestree Woodlands Theatre Saturday 6th July 2019 7:30pm The Tony Farrell Big Band Swings Into Summer. Join the Tony Farrell Big Band for their “Swings into Summer” concert. After a series of back to back sell-out concerts in Nottinghamshire, the band brings you the best of big band music from the vintage era all the way through to modern day hits. Allestree Woodlands School, Blenheim Drive, Allestree, Derby, DE22 2LW. Tickets in advance: £12 / Under 16s £6 (excl booking fee) Tickets on the door: £15 / Under 16s £8 ticketsource.co.uk/tonyfarrellbigband Breadsall and District Gardening Club 59th Annual Flower Show and plant sale to be held at the Breadsall Memorial Hall, Brookside Road, Breadsall, Derby on Saturday 17th August 2019. The show opens at 2pm and admission is 50p. There will be refreshments, raffle, tombola and a plant and produce stall.

There will be an auction of the produce at the end of the show.

Heanor Floral Art Group July 15th flower demonstration by Marie Bradley from Selston entitled Here Comes Summer Time. 7oclock. Venue The Wilmot Street Welfare Centre. Wilmot Street Heanor.

Everyone welcome, visitors £5. For further details Telephone 01332-880179 .

Darley Abbey Historical Group 19 July – ‘Topiary of Lost Theatre in France’, by Joy Lewandoska. All meetings start at 7pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS. There is a charge of £1.50. For further information contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 Take a look at their blog: darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress.com/

Little Chester Heritage Centre St. Paul’s Church, Mansfield Road, Derby - On Sunday July 7th 2-4 p.m. we will present a short talk about Arthur Barlow MBE Derbeian Extraordinair.

Here was a man who raised thousands of pounds for the old DRI from his living room in Chester Green, by staging spectacular celebrity concerts in the 30’s and 40’s starring, amongst others, Gracie Fields, Anna Neagle, Paul Robson and Sybil Thorndyke. We now want to acknowledge his endeavours by requesting a Derby Civic Society Blue Badge be placed on his former home in Chester Green and ask for your support. Do come along and help us. We look forward to seeing you.

Radio 2 Folk Award Winners, and Bob Fox, the Song Man from the highly acclaimed show War Horse.

A great Sunday Afternoon Concert with licensed bars and food outlets - plus lots of other popular attractions. Admission is free with a modest parking fee. Further information contact PR Promotions 01773 853428 Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 16th July 2019. Flower demonstration

by Sionedd Hughes Entitled “Through the Decades” Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Venue: The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members £3.00. Non- members £7.00 For further details telephone 01332 558540

Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club Woodcraft Club meets in Wyaston village hall (DE6 2DR) on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 2:00pm. We have a mixed programme of visiting demonstrators, hands-on sessions under the guidance of more experienced members and a monthly competition.

6th. July 2019 - Another hands-on day.

Non-members are welcome to come along and try a new craft. Ever wanted to operate a woodturning lathe, carve a piece of wood etc.?

Well, here’s your chance - first visit free!

For more information go to www.ddwc.co.uk or phone James Sharpe on 01335 344933.

July events at Alstonefield 13 July Saturday, 8pm Trials of Cato - Tickets £13 at WeGotTickets.com or call 01335 310322.

Spondon Historical Society ‘Spondon Historical Society will meet in Spondon Village Hall, DE21 7FG on Monday July 8th at 7.30pm when the speaker will be Richard Stone on ‘Turf Mazes’. He will tell us how mazes and labyrinths are steeped in folklore and have fascinated people since ancient times. Members £2.50, Visitors £4.00.

This is the last meeting until September 9th.

Folk And Acoustic Music Nottingham Riverside Festival - Big Top Folk Stage Trent Embankment Nottingham NG2 2JY Sunday 4 August 1pm – 6pm Top names from the British Folk scene are guests at this year’s Nottingham Riverside Festival. Guests include - Kim Lowings and the Greenwood Warwick’s new folk winners - The Trials of Cato rising stars of the folk world - the ever popular John Tams & Barry Coope, BBC

Derby A Cappella Derby A Cappella is a group of men who sing in four-part harmony. Any men who would like to try singing in that style, or have experience singing in the Barbershop style, would be very welcome to come to our rehearsals on Tuesday evening from 7.30p.m., at Chester Green Community Centre, City Road, DE1 3SA. Now is the time of year when we start to take bookings for summer festivals, private celebrations. www.derbyacappella.co.uk 60 | www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk

Wirksworth Heritage Centre July 10th Explore Wirksworth’s architectural gems with our guide, followed by a supper at our Webster’s Cafe 7 pm £12 per person – includes food.

July 12th Open mic – come and join in or just listen 7 pm free.

July 13th Walk Around Wirksworth. Explore hidden Wirksworth with our guide 2 pm, £4 per person.

July 15th Stained Glass Windows of St Mary’s Church. See the wonderful windows of our parish church and discover their stories and meanings 7 pm £7 per person.

July 19th Challenge Night. An evening of puzzle type challenges with prizes to be won 7 pm. Teams of up to four £7 per person includes light refreshments – bar available July 20th Afternoon Walk. Wirksworth from the skyline – guided longer walk 12.30 pm £4 pre-booked sandwiches also available.

July 27th Basic Woodwork Workshop.

Pen making with the Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Folk 10 am £25 per person for ages 11+ Belper Art Group Art Exhibition, at The Wharf Gallery Cromford , from Sat 10th -Fri 16th August 10am -4:30pm various media on-display and to purchase throughout the week. All welcome to come along and browse, free admission.

Alstonefield, July 10th, The Trials of Kato

Keane

Friday 4th October Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

After months of speculation, Keane, one of Britain’s most beloved bands are back with a brand new album out September 20th featuring the powerful first single ‘The Way I Feel’. Written by Keane and produced by David Kosten and the band themselves, ‘Cause and Effect’ features 11 new songs recorded in London and Sussex. The birth of this new album came as something of a surprise even to the band. Singer Tom Chaplin had released two successful solo albums but missed his old sparring partner Tim Rice-Oxley. “I found myself wondering how I had come to let this very enigmatic and important relationship in my life drift,” Tom says.

Meanwhile Tim found his life falling apart and from the ashes had written an album’s worth of incredibly personal songs fuelled by humour as well as pain. When Tom, bassist Jesse Quin and drummer Richard Hughes heard the songs, they were immediately drawn to them both sonically and lyrically.

“Hopes and Fears was a break-up album too, but it was about a breakup when I was 19,” Tim explains. “It’s a bit different when you’re older and you’ve got kids – your whole little world shifts on its axis.”

Alistair McGowan

Buxton International Festival July 14th 2019

After the success of his piano album (released through Sony Classical) and his tour in 2018, Alistair McGowan is back with the show that brings together all his talents.

Alongside tracks from the album, Alistair will play some other short classic piano pieces: from Gershwin to Grieg, Mompou to Mendelssohn, Satie to Schubert. Join Alistair as he talks a little about the history of each piece, the composer and his own connection to the music. Expect a lot of beautiful music (with the odd mistake!), some interesting stories and a sprinkling of his trademark impressions.

The Tiger Who Came To Tea

at Buxton Opera House 1st – 2nd August

A musical play adapted and directed by David Wood, based on the book by Judith Kerr. Direct from the West End, the Olivier Award nominated smash hit show, The Tiger Who Came to Tea returns on tour, celebrating over 10 years on stage!

The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger!

Join the tea-guzzling tiger in this delightful family show; packed with oodles of magic, sing-a-long songs and clumsy chaos! A stunning stage adaptation of the classic tale of teatime mayhem... expect to be surprised!

FIVE

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Eyes see, fingers touch, Noses breathe in deep, Tongues taste, ears hear, Bodies ready- leap!

What’s this? What does it look like? How does it feel? Does it smell nasty, or taste nice? Does it make a noise?

Join two dancers and a live musician as they use their eyes and ears, noses and mouths, fingers and feet to discover a world of play that makes the ordinary extraordinary.

FIVE is a playful exploration of our five human senses through dance, movement and live music. Created by Derbyshire-based family theatre specialists WinterWalker, this warm, funny and inclusive show is a perfect introduction to live performance for children age 3 to 6 and their grown-ups.

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ildlife artist Richard Whittlestone holds his Summer exhibition from 15th to 30th of June at his gallery on the Chatsworth estate.

Many new paintings will be on show for the first time, from close portraits to larger landscape inspired pieces.

Professional for 31 years, Richard’s favoured medium is acrylic -usually on panel, his style realistic, almost 3 dimensional.

“My aim is to make the viewer trust the subject is believable, that there is life behind

their eye and they may make a move at any moment. I have studied birds and animals at close quarters all my life, their connection to the environment and the ebb and flow of their daily lives, it is this that I remember when I paint and it helps create the reality”.

Accompanying the originals are new limited edition prints and greetings cards, all will carry Richard’s trademark tiny fly, hidden somewhere in the composition - though it can take a sharp eye to spot it!

Exhibition open daily 10am - 5pm. 11am 4pm Sunday. www.richardwhittlestone.co.uk 01246 582720.

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orma Gent was born at No. 5, Greenhill Lane, Riddings, Derbyshire, with a pencil and brush in her hand, and from an early age her artistic ability was obvious. Many years later it was time to follow her dream, and with a lot of hard work, she established a studio in Alfreton.

Summer Exhibition Continues until 30th June 10am - 5pm

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Each week she holds three classes, and three one day Saturday workshops a year, plus private lessons in the studio.

With paintings all over the world, Norma uses water colours, colour washes, ink and pencil, to produce all original paintings. Her studio is No 2 The Galleries, New Lane, Alfreton.

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’m not ashamed to say ‘I love Derbyshire’; every bit of it. From the Dark Peak of the moorland above Glossop to the ambling course of the River Trent as it twists and turns through the floodplain at the southern tip of the county. I also love its diverse industrial history. None more so that the Derwent Valley stretching from the cotton mills at Cromford to the Silk Mill in Derby. Now designated a World Heritage Site the valley has, at its half way point, the historically important mill town of Belper.

Part of the charm of the town is that it has retained a lot of its original features. One of them being the many alleyways that offer short cuts that can only be used by pedestrians. One of these in Milford links Hopping Hill with Derby Road and, occupying the whole of one side of the pathway is the New Inn. Because of its location it has elevations on to both Hopping Hill and Derby Road; the A6 where the New Inn’s car park is located. Myself and Susan had a table booked at the restaurant at The New Inn. The first thing you notice, before you enter, is the view from the terrace, overlooking the Derwent and on to the Chevin. Even with the poor weather of early June it’s worth a minute to stop and take it in.

We made our way into the bar area to a warm welcome from Hollie who asked if we would like a drink while we went through the menu. An

extensive refurbishment has given the interior a new look with light, modern colours that are offset by simple, bold upholstery. Also, there’s cosy seating in the bay window where you can linger with a pre-dinner drink and take in more of that view before you dine.

With a chilled white wine for Susan and pint of Doom Bar for myself we nibbled on tasty tomato bruschetta drizzled with sweet Balsamic while we chose our evening meal.

The menu is styled as British Italian fusion cuisine and the dishes are created using fresh, seasonal produce, locally sourced. Although it retains a lot of Italian influence from the restaurant’s previous incarnation quite a few English classics are now available. The Italian dishes range from the simple but tasty spaghetti carbonara to a creamy risotto. The majority of the Italian dishes are available in smaller portions as starters as well as mains.

Unhurried we finished our drinks and were shown to our table. I took a look at the wine list.

It’s not extensive but it’s excellent for a restaurant of this size; with something for most tastes and reasonably priced. We ordered a bottle of Chilean Sauvignon Blanc that proved to be a perfect accompaniment for all of our chosen dishes.

I chose my starter from the specials board while Susan was tempted by the cream of vegetable soup. The soup lived up to its billing; creamy with a deep, fresh mixed vegetable flavour. I chose the pan fried chicken livers in a cream and

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brandy sauce. The livers were cooked beautifully.

They had a smooth texture and melted in the mouth. The sauce was rich and full of flavour and I cleaned my plate with the aid of 2 slices of ciabatta.

Susan chose her main course of pan fried hake from the specials board. It came on a crushed new potato fondant served with a cream and garlic sauce. Presented skin side up, the fish was a delight to eat. The skin was crispy and the flesh was flaky and white. The garlic sauce was well balanced, not too powerful, and the potato gave the dish texture.

I chose the Gressingham duck breast. The succulent pink duck was served with an orange reduction that had a citrus zing and was not too sweet.

The duck was tasty, tender and full of flavour.

Both dishes were accompanied by carrot batons, broccoli spears and crispy diced potato.

To finish we shared a portion of home made tiramisu that had us wanting more!

Head chef Kyle is a member of the family that own and run the restaurant. He worked his way up to his current position, starting at the New Inn as a pot washer, with the previous owners. He has now achieved one of his ambitions: to run his own restaurant.

The unhurried atmosphere, the smiling, uniformed staff and Kyle’s memorable dishes made the evening one that we want to experience again.

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he subject of organ and tissue donation for humans has been in the news a lot recently, primarily because there is an increasing disparity between supply and demand.

at SLVC (in addition to dental work and soft tissue surgery), so I thought that I should raise awareness of the VT Bank and the subject of tissue donation. I think it fair to say that it’s not an easy topic to broach; after all, it means that death of your beloved furry one has to be thought about in detail and none of us particularly want to do that do we?

Our ever expanding population means that there are more transplant operations being performed and more people on the waiting list for organs than ever before. As it stands, the system is set to change from an “opt in” system, to an “opt out” one, i.e. it will be presumed that upon your death, you agree to your organs being used for transplant unless you specify otherwise. This got me thinking about the veterinary tissue bank (VTBank) and the role it has to play in modern veterinary practice. As many of you know, especially our regular clients at Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre, I am particularly keen on the field of small animal surgery.

As with human surgical procedures, advances in the veterinary field have seen the demand for bone, corneas, and cartilage (both feline and canine) soar, so the subject of tissue donation is really important to know about, in my opinion anyway. Even within my profession, some practitioners may not be fully clued up as to what the VT Bank does, or how to use it if or when the time arrives.

We do a fair amount of orthopaedic procedures

The VT Bank was founded ten years ago by Dr Peter Myint and Professor John Innes. Dr Myint is a trained veterinary surgeon, but he also has extensive experience in setting up and running human tissue banks. Professor Innes is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

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specialist in small animal orthopaedic surgery and lectures at Liverpool University as well as publishing articles and papers in this field. Safe to say that the VT Bank was set up by “those in the know”!

In order for your pets’ tissues to be considered for donation there are a few conditions and criteria that need to be met. The first of these conditions is that the donor animal must have an up-to-date vaccination record and secondly have a current, full clinical history; both of these must be available for inspection by the VT Bank team. Donor animals must also be aged eight or younger – what we consider to be young or middleaged. Most of the cats and dogs in this age bracket tend to have healthy tissues, their deaths as a result of trauma such as road traffic accidents. Some have unfortunately come to the scheme because we have had to euthanise them on behavioural grounds or because they are in too much pain to have a significant quality of life. As well as tissue, the VT Bank also provides stem cells which are then used to treat osteoarthritis in affected cats and dogs.

There are some circumstances which may prevent your furbabies tissues being available to donate. These include them having had cancer, certain auto-immune diseases and dying from infectious diseases. To ensure that only healthy tissues are used in procedures, all potential donors are screened by VT Bank – qualified vets and then approved as fit for donation by their Veterinary Medical Director. This scrutiny ensures that recipient animals, their owners, and their vets, can be assured that only healthy, disease-free tissues are given to them.

If you think that you would like your pet to be considered for the donation scheme, then please do raise the subject with us on your next visit to either of the Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre clinics. Just like its human counterpart, your pet can be registered as a donor in advance of their death; if they (hopefully) make it past eight years of age then they would no longer be a valid candidate.

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Some people don’t like pre-registering their pet; they feel as if they’re signing their beloved companions’ life away, and I get that, I really do. All I can say is “let’s have that initial conversation, that’s the hardest part”. Knowing what your wishes are means that this difficult subject has already been broached, and doesn’t have to be gone into in great detail when the time of your fur-baby’s death comes. If you do decide to opt in to the tissue donation scheme, you are given a pet donor card by the VT Bank and (with your permission) they then inform us of your decision; hopefully though, we’ll be fully aware of this anyway as we pride ourselves on the close relationships we have with our clients.

There are no costs involved either for us veterinarians or for yourselves, the owners. Once we confirm that the donation criteria has been met, and you give your consent, we simply ring the VT Bank, who arrange to collect your pets’ body. As well as meeting all the costs of the tissue recovery, VT Bank will also pay for the cremation of your furry family member.

On the consent form that all owners sign, there is an option for you to stipulate whether you’d like a joint cremation or an individual one, with ashes returned to you. I think most folks would like to receive their pets’ ashes back; after all, your pet is now a life-saving hero and who wouldn’t treasure that memory?

No doubt this blog has given you something to think about, so if you have any questions or want more information, then please get in touch with us here at Saint Leonard Veterinary Centre.

Until next time; stay safe, stay well, and be happy:-)

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Taking the well-appointed SE as a starting point, the Landmark Edition adds the Dynamic Exterior Pack, which includes a more purposeful front bumper design and Narvik Black mesh grille and fender vents. Narvik Black nameplate scripting on the bonnet and tailgate is also joined by unique Landmark badging. The exterior is also marked out by fixed front and rear panoramic roofs, front fog lights and signature Hi-Line tail lights, while privacy glass and 20-inch Gloss Black wheels complete the modern and contemporary look.

The interior is available with a choice of Ebony or Acorn grained leather. A Satin Brushed centre console and unique aluminium mesh finisher also set it apart, with the 380W Meridian Sound System, helping to create a truly first-class travel experience.

The Discovery Landmark Edition is available in both Land Rover’s 240HP SD4 and 306HP SD6 diesel engines. Combining allterrain capability with seven-seat versatility,

intelligent seat fold technology and smart storage throughout the vehicle’s premium interior, the Discovery family has claimed more than 300 global awards and notched up 1.7 million sales since 1989. Traditional Discovery capability comes in the form of All Terrain Progress Control, which enables drivers to set and maintain a steady speed in challenging conditions. It is available alongside Terrain Response 2, offering a number of driving modes designed for tackling challenging ground conditions. Alongside a class-leading wading depth of 900mm and a 3,500kg towing capacity, Discovery delivers unrivalled breadth of capability.

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Metal detectorist’s Roman coin is the only one like it in the world – but he had no idea for decades.

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hen metal detectorist Tom Thomas found a Roman silver coin nearly 30 years ago, he thought it was nothing out of the ordinary.

The 62-year-old retired policeman from Reading, Berkshire, said: “I didn’t know what it was as such.

I knew it to be a Roman coin as I had found others in the past. I put it with my small collection and thought nothing more of it.

“I’ve been metal detecting for more than 30 years and I’ve found lots of different coins and other Roman artefacts.”

Fast forward to a family barbecue two years ago and Mr Thomas was set for the surprise of his life – his 2,000-year-old Carausius Denarius Roman coin was spotted by fellow metal detectorist Mark Becher.

He thought it was unique and started consulting experts.

“It turned out to be the only one of its kind in the world,” said Mr Thomas. “But for that family barbecue and Mark spotting it, I may never have known. Mark contacted other experts, including the

Summer Fine Art & Country House Auction at Bishton Hall, Wolseley Bridge, Staffs ST17 0XN Wednesday 3 to Tuesday 9 July

The Carausius Denarius coin has a guide price of £10,000.

Charles Hanson, owner of Hansons Auctioneers, with the unique Roman Coin.

British Museum, and no-one had seen anything else like it before.”

The coin, which was dug up in a farmer’s field in Berkshire and dates back to AD 286-93, is now set to go into Hansons Auctioneers August 27 Historica and Metal Detecting Finds sale with a guide price of £10,000.

The coin, which is registered with the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), features Roman goddess Salus feeding a snake rising from an altar.

Its PAS description adds: “The coin is not published and is the only example of its type in Sam Moorhead’s [The British Museum’s finds advisor for Roman coins] corpus for a new edition of RIC [Roman Imperial Coinage catalogue].”

Mr Thomas said: “I remember the day I found it. I was getting a very low signal from my metal detector. I wasn’t going to dig but changed my mind.

I had to dig down really deep compared to other coins, about eight inches, to reach it.”

Mr Becher, who runs the Metal Detectives Group from Aylesbury, Berkshire, organises digs and works as a consultant for Hansons, said: “I was staggered when I saw the coin. I’ve been metal detecting for more than 25 years and I’ve witnessed countless finds, both my own and other people’s. I’d just never seen anything like it. “After noticing it in Tom’s collection, I quickly sent a picture of it to a good friend and Roman coin guru Chip Gruszczinski. He came back in a flash confirming what I’d assumed.

“I then contacted an absolute expert in the field of Roman coins, Sam Moorhead at the British Museum. He agreed with the consensus of opinion. People talk about rare but this coin is unique. As far as we know, it’s the only one of its kind in the world. For keen collectors, it doesn’t get any better than that.”

Mr Thomas said: “I was surprised and delighted when I heard how special the coin was. The only reason I’m selling it now is because it’s so unique and valuable it has to be locked away in a bank vault.”

The Carausius Denarius coin will be sold at Hansons Auctioneers, Heage Lane, Etwall, Derbyshire, DE65 6LS, on August 27, 2019.

Right: Keen metal detectorist Tom Thomas.

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Far right: Mark Becher, Hansons’ metal detecting finds consultant, spotted the unique coin.

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