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hen I was first sent to school it was de rigeur that one wrote in ink with a pen. As six and seven year olds we had cheap dip pens with a ceramic ink-well inserted into our desks, but by the time I reached prep school at ten one had to be equipped with a proper fountain pen along with a bottle of ink from which to refill it. Consequently, I was sent off on my first day in September 1955 with a blue Swan pen and an angular bottle of blue Waterman’s ink. Had I realised it, I should have kept that old pen (which I didn’t really like – I much preferred my friends’ Parker 51s), for vintage fountain pens (those made prior to 1960) are highly collectible.
After centuries of writing with goose quills and later, pens with steel nibs dipped in ink, pens with internal ink reservoirs that were filled with eyedroppers called fountain pens slowly came into fashion from the mid-19th century. Yet they were notoriously fickle, routinely leaked and the flow of ink onto the writing surface was uneven. This changed in 1889 when Louis Waterman, an insurance salesman, developed a new type of ink feed that allowed air to flow into the pen as ink flowed out, reducing the number of ink blots and making the ink flow more reliably. Pens were at first of hard rubber but the discovery of Bakelite (followed by celluloid and plastic) made the mass production of such pens simple. Soon, firms like Waterman’s own, Parker, Shaeffer, Wahl-Eversharp, Conway Stewart and others (at first mostly American) began producing pens of increasing quality, and embellishing them with gold nibs, gold or gilt metal inlays and plastic bodies using increasingly diverse surface colourings and patterns.
Other fountain-pen manufacturers from this era include Mabie, Todd & Company, whose top model was the Swan, like the one Mama pressed into my hand in 1955, and the Moore Pen Company, whose Maniflex pens (£70 and above today) often had gorgeous tiger-eye bodies. Aiken Lambert made pens with engraved, gilt or silver bodies; Gold Bond and John Holland made pens with equally beautiful plastic bodies; and Wahl ranged from metal to hard rubber, both of which featured Greek key patterns on their handling surfaces; its Doric pens from the 1930s are considered some of the handsomest ever made. The most elite category of vintage pens, include Dunhill-Namiki maki-e ( Japanese lacquer). The urushi lacquer barrels were painstakingly decorated with layers of fine gold dust and other pigments, in a timeconsuming process by a master artisan. First-rate early examples are notoriously rare, and have sold for over a quarter of a million dollars; a fine such pen was recently sold on E-bay for £138,346. Another prestige firm CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 9
Waterman 52 £267 [Private collection]
was German, founded in Hamburg in 1908: the Simplo Filler Pen Company whose Montblanc, with its built-in inkwell has survived the years in production. Montblanc first placed a white tip on the pens’ caps in 1910, this evolving in 1913 into a rounded star. A 1960s Monterosa version was sold at Bamfords for £195. The most collectable pens include the Waterman Ideal No. 52, a lever-filled pen that continued to be made between 1910 and 1934 with a hard rubber (or ebonite) barrel even after other manufacturers started making their barrels out of celluloid, later plastic. The nibs were both flexible and fine. Shaeffer’s were the first firm to turn to celluloid bodies, and used lever filling reservoirs from 1908. Like Conway Stewart, they also pioneered colour effects and overall shape, pioneering a move away from the strictly cylindrical, like their Balance pen. George Parker founded his company in 1888, later inventing a new type of feed
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called the ‘Lucky Curve’ that returned ink to the sac when the pen was stored, instead of drying in the feed and causing an ink blot when the pen was used again.1921 saw the first Parker Duofold, so named because it was claimed to be twice the pen that any other company could offer. The Duofold was originally available only in red hard rubber (the ‘Big Red’) and was also over-large - almost 51/2 inches long. The other of Parker success was the Parker 51, that was introduced in 1941 - a simple pen with clean lines, a hooded nib, not ornate, but one of the most popular of pens, being made in various degrees of ornament and quality for over thirty years. Prices used from £20 to as much as £300 with gold trim and original case. We encountered Messrs. Wahl-Eversharp when I wrote about their Eversharp propelling pencils earlier this year. As a result, the firm didn’t begin manufacturing fountain pens until 1917. In 1931 the Doric was released, a twelve-sided pen inspired by ancient Greek architecture,
later coming with their adjustable nib. They were later taken over by Parker. There are two areas of collecting, the vintage one (up to about 1960) as discussed here and modern, often limited edition, one, a chancier matter entirely. The two are very separate. In collecting, condition is, as ever, everything, especially with regard to nibs and filling mechanisms. Discolouration is a problem especially with early pens with bodies of hard rubber, bakelite and celluloid. Nibs should not have been bent and straightened. Whilst pens are rarely if ever going to be forgeries (there are reproductions, though but they are usually obvious) well concealed repairs are to be looked for – keep a loop handy. As with most things, the rarer a pen is, the more expensive it will be. Restored pens will command a higher price than pens in need of restoration. Gold nibs and furniture will be pricier than stainless steel and nickel-plated alternatives. Many
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Montblanc Monterosa, 1960s [Carole Craven]
Swan: a 1928 model £145 [Bamfords Auctions]
Eyedropper gilt pen 1905 £300 [Private collection] excellent restored pens can be picked up for around £5-40 whilst for other good quality models you will be looking at £75 to £100 or more. A Parker Duofold Senior, for example, will usually an expenditure of over £160 when in good condition. Even my old 1960s Parker 45 CT is now worth £10-15.
Wahl-Eversharp Doric £238 [Private collection]
Moore Maniflex £130 [Private collection]
Pens, like clocks, violins or anything else which is essentially practical, were made to be used, and collectible ones should be used too. From the 1970s fountain pens lost much ground to good quality ball-point pens and both began to lose popularity in the 1990s with the advent of the computer: most of us now write stuff for which we previously used a pen on a keyboard.
Yet that has ushered in a new enthusiasm amongst the well-heeled for good quality fountain pens, which do not get a lot of use but, when they do, they make the sort of statement that some people really relish. Whipping out a vintage Montblanc or Parker 51: now that really will cut a dash!
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S H Grimm’s 1774 view of the new house from the south [Private collection]
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The Lost Houses
of Derbyshire by Maxwell Craven A descendant, William Wood sold the estate in 1604 to William Routhe of Birley and Waleswood (now Wales) both just over the county line in Yorkshire. They seem to have rebuilt the house in coursed rubble of High Hazels Coal, quarried locally, of which the main surviving doorcase is carved from a single block. Unfortunately, this house was abandoned towards the end of the nineteenth century, having been described as an ‘ancient farm house’ since the mid-18th century, in favour of a new house built contiguously, of which more anon. No illustration of the old house survives, but the L-shaped surviving portion has two storeys over a high basement, suggesting a house of some pretension, the more so for Thomas Bulmer in 1895 recorded a lost first floor long gallery of some sixty feet, a four yard (12 foot) square rannel balk and chimney and a kitchen fireplace boasting a twelve foot wide cambered bressumer, the latter still in situ (or was when Mick Stanley and I visited in 1980). The house under consideration today, however, is its successor, Romeley House, occasionally and confusingly also called Romeley Hall. This was built by Thomas Wright Bridgehouses, in Sheffield (1679-1741), who bought the estate from the heirs of Francis Routh of Brenley, Kent, whose father, Sir John, had left Yorkshire and had been financially hammered for loyalty to the King during the Civil War. This villa, built possibly as a place to which he could retire from the smoke and pollution of Georgian Sheffield, seems to have been erected immediately after his purchase in 1711. The need for a new house being that the Clayton family had a three-lives lease of the old hall and were still in occupation. In 1741 this new house passed to Wright’s nephew, Revd. Thomas Wright, who lived in the rectory at Birley, Yorkshire and did not use Romeley House, which fell into some disrepair by the 1780s. Thus in 1788 he sold house and estate
to Daniel Thomas Hill. He was the well-heeled son of a London distiller, living near Aylesbury, Bucks., but had business interests locally, living at Chesterfield, where he died in 1811. Daniel Hill clearly had no desire to live at Romeley either, so he let the new house and estate for life to Dr. Thomas Gisborne (17251806), a member of a prominent local dynasty, a noted physician, Fellow of St. John’s Cambridge and President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1791, 1794 and 1796 to 1803. He had also been appointed Physician in Ordinary to George III on the recommendation of Erasmus Darwin, FRS, made when the latter had been approached but was keen to avoid being appointed himself.1 Although a bachelor, Gisborne decided to put the house into good repair and to improve it as a fashionable country seat for himself and to improve the setting to create a modest Elysium around it.
Dr. Thomas Gisborne, PRCP [Derby Museums Trust]
The brick building he acquired was nothing if not architecturally quirky. It was of five closely- set bays facing south, with side elevations also of three bays, and boasted two storeys and attics. The main façade was notably arresting, rising from a prominent podium and approached by a full width set of stone steps with end and central balustrades. The ground floor was enclosed by angle pilasters rising above the plat band into plinths (or chimneys), whilst at first floor level the façade rose at a slope in a series of reverse curves separated by steps to attic level where they ended against two further full height pilasters which enclosed the central three bays and all of the attic, forming a sort of giant shaped gable. The attic itself consisted of a single sash flanked by a pair of blind lights. The windows had stone lintels and those on the ground floor moulded brick labels beneath the sills, although the sashes one sees on the only view of it, drawn by Samuel Hieronymus
Revd. Christopher Alderson by Joseph Wright [Christie’s]
Above: Hellaby Hall, photographed in 1995 [M. Craven] Right: Grimethorpe Hall in March 2017 [Private collection] 1. He had numerous other, more cerebral, fish to fry: King-Hele, D., Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (London 1999) p.312 & n. 10, cf. PRO 30/70/3/163 (of 3/11/1790).
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Grimm (1733-1794) in 1774, probably replaced stone mullion-and-transom cross windows. There is a naive sophistication about this extraordinary provincial Baroque façade, and its impression on the viewer of a giant shaped pediment is very reminiscent of a group of south Yorkshire houses, one of them, Hellaby Hall, only some ten miles away at Maltby on the east edge of Rotherham, just north of Junction 32 of the M1. This was built on the same scale, with similarly shaped gable (albeit resting upon volutes) and banding, although its façade, of smooth local stone, is not broken up by odd pilasters as is Romeley’s. Another house, Grimethorpe Hall, just NE of Barnsley, is, like Romeley, in brick with stone dressings, and again of five bays. The pediment was once shaped but got simplified in a Georgian rebuild that led to the installation of sash windows. Both houses seem to lack the odd plasters, but in fact Grimethorpe does have attenuated ones to first floor level, flanking the entrance. Both houses have lain derelict and at risk for decades, although the former has been rescued and is now a thriving hotel. Hellaby was built in 1692 by West India merchant Ralph Fretwell (a remote descendant of the Freschevilles of Staveley), whilst Grimethorpe dates to a similar period - at least between 1670 and 1713 , being the adult lifetime of its builder Robert Se(a)ton.
He widened the centre section, breaking it forward, replacing the three close-set bays with a single wide one of tripartite sashes set in recessed segmental panels, echoed in the pedimented attic by a thermal or Diocletian (lunette) window. The side elements were altered to produce a façade of interlocking pediments in the manner of the churches in the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio’s Four Books of Architecture of 1570, a conceit revived in Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire by James Paine in the 1750s and also used on the Devonshire Hospital, Full Street, Derby by Joseph Pickford in 1777. What the original interior was like and what alterations
Gisborne made to it is impossible to tell, as no evidence for it has survived, bar a mention of oak panelling and staircase, which may well refer to the house as first built. Neither is there any record, needless to say, of the architect of these works, but from the late Bernard Pardoe’s Grimm-style watercolour, the effect might suggest a competent hand working to a tight budget, hence no doubt the astoundingly plain side elevations; the style is akin to that of William Lindley of Doncaster. Lindley was also linked to Revd. Christopher Alderson, garden designer and rector of
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This trio probably owe their inspiration to Robert Trollope of York an architect who revelled in the provincial Baroque and who died in 1686 having designed a very similar but wider gabled façade for Sir Richard Graham at Norton Conyers Hall near Ripon in the late 1670s and who probably also built Knedlington Old Hall, with similar gables, for Stephen Arlush in the 1660s. It is with this group of buildings that the Wright family’s new Romeley Hall should be associated. Grimm’s illustration, which turned up in a private collection in 2014, shows the house in an informal landscape with a gardener working in the foreground, and was probably painted for Thomas Wright perhaps to help promote the sale of the house. A letter by him, full of local gossip, survives from 1784 and mentions Gisborne as ‘my friend’ and describes him as one ‘who knows everything relative to himself.’
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The remains of old Romeley hall, photographed 1981 [M. F. Stanley] Eckington, to whom alterations to the rectory have been attributed. This association brings us to the landscape. It was described (at second hand, one suspects) as ‘…pleasantly situated…in the tastefully laid out pleasure grounds are two avenues of yew trees remarkable for their curious growth.’ Gisborne and Alderson were known to each other. Revd. Thomas Mason, who described Alderson to Queen Charlotte as his élève, wrote to Alderson about a visit he had made to Gisborne at Romeley. Also in Alderson’s circle was Daniel Hill’s son the Venerable
Thomas Hill, later Archdeacon of Derby. Unfortunately, apart from vestiges of one of the avenues, nothing remains of either pleasure ground or landscape – nor, of course, house. After Gisborne’s death at Romeley in 1806, the house was let by Archdeacon Hill, Godfrey Croft (1800-1873) being tenant from the 1840s to 1864. It was also occasionally used by Archdeacon Hill’s daughter Mary Elizabeth Sarah (1838-1921) who in 1857 married Revd. Alfred Olivier, vicar of Ashbourne 1876-78. The pair later moved to Derby, where their joint patrimony enabled them to found two new parishes, equipped by churches designed by Joseph Peacock in the rapidly expanding south of the town.
Alas, a brick and tile works by the entrance on the Woodthorpe-Clowne road, another brickworks to the south, the expansion of the Barlborough Colliery to the east and Woodhouse Lane colliery equally close to the north, soon began to render the house effectively uninhabitable, a situation compounded by the building of the MR Clowne branch across the house’s south lawn in the 1860s, effectively cutting the estate in two. The house long derelict was cleared after the Great War, leaving only the vestiges of its Tudor predecessor decaying in the farmyard nearby. Mrs. Olivier died in 1921 when the Romeley estate was sold to the tenants.
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The Biddulph dahlias make a spectacular splash of colour in autumn.
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The Dahlias of Biddulph Grange Garden By Brian Spencer
A little way beyond the northern limits of the Potteries, just off the Congleton road, Biddulph Grange Garden is one of those places where each season has something to offer. It is this special changing of interest and variation of plants looking their best which draws us back, time after time. This year our visit coincided with the dahlias at their flamboyant best, but while admiring them we discovered a hidden secret in the history surrounding their position in this unique garden.
Biddulph Grange Garden was created in 27years from 1842-1868 by James Bateman, a local businessman and his wife Maria, together with Edward Cooke, a marine artist friend. The garden was dug out of the side of a valley that flows down to the River Trent and by constructing ‘compartments’, microclimates were created to make homes for the trees and shrubs collected by famous plant explorers commissioned by Bateman. With differing areas created by the microclimates, the garden was divided into small, interconnected zones, some warm, others damp and cool and sometimes almost shadeless. Each ‘compartment’ became home for magnificent trees, shrubs like rhododendrons, azaleas and ferns as they settled into a copy of their original environments. In this way it is possible to walk from country to country without travelling more than say, half a mile. Within the space of a few yards inter-connected rocky paths lead from Italy, to Asia, then onwards to a Scottish glen. Beyond a rocky tunnel the garden explorer will find themselves inside the tranquillity of a Chinese temple complete with tinkling bells and a bamboo shaded pond full of golden carp; a Willow Pattern bridge completes the effect of being on the other side of the world. Passing beneath the gaze of a magnificently gilded buffalo, the path climbs past a short section of the ‘Great Wall of China’, by way of a ‘stumpery’, inverted trees roots, to arrive at a half-timbered Cheshire cottage. Beyond the ‘cottage’ Egypt is described from the imagination of some Victorian sculptor who, it must be said had obviously never been to that ancient
Biddulph Grange private apartments’ envious views country. Round the corner from the rather strange reproductions of the sphynx and the ape god, Thoth, is the long double-sided avenue lined with Deodar Cedars, backed by Red Horse Chestnuts. Although still known by its original title of the Wellingtonia Avenue, there are no specimens of this most ancient of trees. They were removed by Robert Heath, a later owner of Biddulph Grange who possibly could not wait until the Giant Sequoias, Californian Redwoods, mature in 3,500 years. CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 31
Part of the Chinese garden James Bateman almost went bankrupt building the garden
The ‘Cheshire Cottage’
The beds where the dahlias we had come to see are grown, disappeared beneath a mountain of rubble during a less prosperous time for the garden. Throughout its life, Biddulph Grange and its garden has had several owners, many of whom could not afford, or be interested in its upkeep. Almost from the start, Bateman almost bankrupted himself with the cost of developing such an imaginative project. Other owners did not have quite the drive or interest as he had and to cap it all, the house was almost totally destroyed by fire in 1896. With the passing of time, two wars and sundry recessions, Biddulph Grange Garden became a vandalised wilderness. In 1923 the house was turned into a cottage hospital, then in the 1960s the NHS took over the hospital, but with the inevitable demands on finance the NHS could only afford to pay one gardener to care for the 15acre garden. Vandalism and neglect took its toll and it was at this time that the Dahlia Walk as it is called, was filled to the brim with rubble from building work on the hospital. What had been one of James Bateman’s pride and joys simply disappeared. When the National Trust took over the garden in April 1988, it embarked on its most ambitious restoration project: to return Biddulph to the glory of its Victorian heyday.
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...and the Dahlias Fortunately the garden despite its neglect was resilient and over the intervening years James and Maria’s vision came back to life. One of the major projects was to open up the Dahlia Walk, rediscovered in 1988, and this meant removing the tons of rubble and junk dumped there by builders. Beds making up the ‘Walk’ follow a gentle slope rising to the east towards the vantage point of the Shelter House. A series of neatly clipped yew hedges create small interlinking beds, each filled with what is possibly the most exotic plant to flower in British gardens. Dahlias similar to now extinct cultivars that were popular in Victorian times, together with herbaceous plants of which Mrs Bateman was especially fond make a pleasing spectacle in late summer, almost until the first frosts. Tight-headed pompoms vie with flamboyant larger flowered varieties, all in the brightest of colours bring the ‘Walk’ to life. This would surely have met with the Bateman’s approval, especially if the stroll leads up to the Shelter House, another result of the National Trust’s successful knack of restoring something for which only plans and old photographs remain. When the dahlias finish in autumn, the garden has one last explosion of colour as leaves on the deciduous trees turn to different shades of reds and yellow.
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Jean-Jaques, Simon Base, Frankie Griffith, Paul Newman and either Bishop or Holding as the overseas choice launched fusillades of pace, either fast or fast-medium, at the County Ground. By now Barnett was attracting the attention of the Test selectors. In 1988 he made a dazzling 175 against Gloucestershire at Derby which included a century before lunch off an attack which included the Australian fast-medium bowler Terry Alderman, who had taken 42 wickets in the 1981 six-Test series. He followed this with an unbeaten 239 at Leicester and he was selected for the fifth Test against the West Indies at The Oval only for a hand injury to compel his withdrawal. His chance came in the Lord’s Test against Sri Lanka when he made 66 and 0 and he followed this with 84 in the Texaco Trophy limitedover game at The Oval. His selection for the subsequently cancelled tour of India (the Indian government would not grant visas to eight players, including Barnett, because of links with South Africa) followed as a matter of course.
And then, in 1989, the Australians, led by Allan Border, arrived. England, with Ted Dexter as chairman of selectors, Micky Stewart as team manager and David Gower appointed captain, held the Ashes and were favourites to retain them. In their final match before the first Test at Headingley, the Australians met Derbyshire at the County Ground on Saturday, Sunday and Monday June 3, 4 and 5. Barnett recalls it as probably the best match in which he played: “Castlemaine, an Australian brewing company, had offered a share of £25,000 for victories in county matches and while the prize money was a factor we needed no financial incentives to turn out our best side against the Australians. They had lost by three wickets against Worcestershire on a well-grassed wicket and we felt this type of pitch gave us the best chance of winning. There was a strong feeling that it was our job to help England by trying to soften them up before the first Test which was beginning on the Thursday. We certainly didn’t expect any favours from the tourists.” Consequently Derbyshire fielded a four-man pace attack consisting of Bishop, Malcolm, Mortensen and Base, and Barnett put the tourists in on an emerald-green pitch. They began reasonably well but on the stroke of lunch Border completely misjudged a ball from Base, did not offer a stroke, and was bowled to make the score 123 for six. Although most of the damage was done by the fast-medium Base and Mortensen rather than the quicker bowlers, Border complained to Barnett that somebody was going to get hurt on such a pitch. It was clear that the Australians had a fight on their hands but they battled to 200 and then unleashed their own bowlers: Alderman, Carl Rackeman, Greg Campbell and Steve Waugh. Barnett had something to prove. He had been left out of the England squad for Headingley and responded by driving Alderman’s first ball through the covers for an all-run four. Playing with superb timing on the off-side he raced to 50 from only 58 balls. He faced 86 balls and struck 12 fours in making 76 before being caught at first slip off Campbell to make the score 106 for two.
By the close Derbyshire were 153 for four and the following morning they were dismissed for 228. The Australians struggled again and left Derbyshire a target of 153. Barnett set off at a gallop before he was bowled by Campbell for 23 and then a devastating spell by Alderman, who took three wickets in 11 balls, left the game in the balance with the county 63 for five. On Monday, despite a good effort from John Morris (34) and an unbeaten 37 by Reg Sharma, the tourists got home by 11 runs after what Wisden described as a close, exciting and frequently ill-tempered match. Alderman finished with four for 32, giving him a match analysis of seven for 70. The Australian coach Bobby Simpson described the pitch as ‘bad for the game’ saying that no matter how good a batsman was he was never really in. Far from being demoralised had they lost, his team would have been grateful to get away without a batsman being injured. Derbyshire’s chairman Chris Middleton hit back by saying the public of Derbyshire would not complain if they had pitches like that for every game. Barnett, whose 76 was the only score above 39 in the match, said: “The Australians probably wanted something very flat so that they could have extended batting practice but they were the tourists and we did not have to go out of our way to suit them. In my view, the wicket was never dangerous. I agree it was too much in favour of the bowlers but you can’t always get a correct balance. To be honest, I thought some of the batting made it look a lot worse than it was.”
During that six-Test series, which Australia won 4-0, Terry Alderman took 41 wickets, 19 of them lbw. It almost became part of the national consciousness, so frequently did the radio commentators utter the phrase, ‘lbw bowled Alderman’. Gooch was lbw five times in his nine innings, thrice to Alderman. His answerphone message stated: “I’m out – probably lbw to Terry Alderman.” In the prevailing political climate, an activist scrawled ‘Thatcher out’ on a wall. Added underneath, in a different hand, was ‘lbw b Alderman 0’ During his career Alderman played in 41 Tests from 1981-90, taking 170 wickets, 34 per cent of which were lbw. Barnett’s movements at the crease never bothered Derbyshire’s followers but they did not please the purists, as the magisterial Jim Swanton proclaimed: “The chief event of Saturday, apart from Lamb’s flawless 100, was Barnett’s innings. His antics as the bowler nears the crease defy every canon, but, that said, a good eye and a determination to play his natural attacking game saw him through. If the supremo can modify that stance and drop the strongest hint to exercise his wrist-spin regularly
for Derbyshire he could serve England well.” Barnett made 34 in the second innings and his first four Test innings had produced 180 runs. But there was to be no lengthy international career and after scores of 14 and 3 at Lord’s and 10 at Edgbaston, he was dropped. Opting to tour South Africa with Gatting’s ‘rebel’ side did not help and he did not play Test cricket again, although in 1993 there was speculation that he might be chosen as England captain. There were many highlights – and controversies – during the remainder of his career and a sequel to the 1989 game against the Australians. “Steve Waugh said that match was played with all the intensity of a Test match and when they played us again at Derby in 1993 I bumped into him at Breadsall. He asked me straightaway what kind of pitch they were likely to face this time. I told him he had no need to worry because it was white rather than green. ‘It depends what your definition of white is,’ he replied. There was rain about and the pitch turned out to be green but sluggish. Border, doubtless recalling 1989, put Derbyshire in. The match ended in a weather-affected draw and in his only innings Barnett made 114.
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ight now it really is starting to feel like autumn and so, the ideal time to plant a hedge. The weather is still perfect with little chance of frost. I’ve tried to condense it, but it’s a huge subject which is difficult to advise on in a few paragraphs. First decide on what the hedge is going to be used for, maybe an ornamental hedge (attractive leaf, shape or flower) or a barrier hedge (thorny leaves or stems). Second: decide if this hedge needs to be evergreen (keeps it’s leaf in winter) or deciduous (loses its leaf in winter). Then if it’s going to be a formal hedge (regularly clipped into shape) or a informal hedge (clipped once or twice a year). Then lastly: the ultimate height of the hedge.
Hedging Plants :
Ornamental hedge: berberis, escallonia, photina, potentilla and forsythia. Barrier hedge: hawthorn, pyracantha, holly, shrub roses and berberis. Evergreen hedge: buxus, photina, escallonia, elaegnus, conifer, laurel, pittosporum and hebe Deciduous hedge: beech, hawthorn, berberis, potentilla and forsythia. Formal hedge: buxus, laurel, beech, privet and Escallonia. Informal hedge: potentilla, hebe, forsythia and shrub rose. A number of shrubs are versatile so they
cross over into other groups and there are lots of other plants you could use. Look in your local garden centre / plant nurseries for other options. Some hedging plants such as hawthorn, beech and laurel are available “bare root” which is much cheaper than using a containerised plant.
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Allotment or Vegetable Patch:
• Now is the time to wrap grease bands around the trunks of fruit trees to protect them from winter moths. I tend to leave grease or bands on all year round to stop any crawling pests. • Plant out Japanese onion sets and garlic. • Prune back canes of autumn-fruiting raspberries and blackberries after harvesting. Also tidy strawberry beds, cutting back old foliage and runners and removing weeds. • Spread a thick layer of homemade compost or farmyard manure to dig into your soil over winter. • Sow green manure crops over bare areas of soil. • Prune suckers away from the base of fruit trees
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• Clear fallen leaves from greenhouse roof and gutters. Clean glazing to let in maximum light and clear out old crops and growing bags adding all to the compost heap. • Insulate the greenhouse with bubble polythene. • Pick and lay out green tomatoes from outdoor crops to ripen under cover or on a window sill; speed the process up with the help of a banana. • Chillies and peppers should still be cropping
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• Spike compacted lawns and brush sand and sulphate of iron into the holes to improve drainage, green up, kill and prevent moss in lawns. Apply an autumn lawn food. • Order bare root roses, and prepare the soil well before planting. • Prune suckers away from the base of ornamental trees. • Look in nurseries or garden centres for their new season collection of seeds or send off for seed catalogues. • Clean out bird boxes, remember that nesting birds are a useful friend in the garden. • If growing holly , throw a net over branches to protect berries from hungry birds. • Collect and compost any fallen autumn leaves. • Collect seeds and berries from shrubs and flowering plants that you want to propagate. Also take hard wood cuttings from cornus, ribes, salix and roses – please contact me for advice about certain plants and shrubs. • Plant out spring bedding, including pansies, wallflowers and forget-me-nots. Buy primroses and primulas for seasonal winter colour. • Pile bark mulch over the crowns of hardy fuchsias, dahlias and agapanthus etc. to provide winter protection.
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Plants looking fantastic this month: Nandina domestica ‘Obsessed’ (Heavenly bamboo or Sacred bamboo) Although it’s known as Heavenly Bamboo it’s not a bamboo. It forms a tall shrub, up to 1m (3ft) high, with bright green leaves that turn reddish-purple in autumn and winter. It has brilliant, bright red new leaf colour – so as the plant is growing you get these flushes of bright red. It also produces clusters of small white flowers that are followed by attractive bunches of red berries after a good summer. Grows happily in full sun or part shade - Look out for Nandinia domestica ‘Firepower’ 2ft to 3ft and Nandina domestica ‘Richmond’; an improved form of domestica.
Pyracantha: (Firethorn) I have weeded a few of these in my time and can vouch for why it’s called ‘Firethorn’. A great feature plant with shiny, evergreen leaves and pure white flowers in late spring followed by bright orange, yellow or red berries in late summer to early winter. Great for wild life and makes a great evergreen, barrier hedge or a stunning wall shrub.
Arbutus unedo ‘Rubra’: (Strawberry Tree) Spreading, shrubby tree that will reach over 20ft, with shredding brown bark and glossy bright green leaves. It is attractive in autumn when the white flowers, often tinged pink, are produced and the fruit from last year are turning red. The tree gets it’s name from these fruit, which look like strawberries but sadly don’t taste like them. An excellent tree for coastal gardens or in a sheltered spot inland. Best planted in full sun.
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The creation of Edinburgh writer Ian Rankin was beaten to the number one spot only by Sherlock Holmes in a poll of W H Smith readers and his popularity is about to increase even more in the next couple of months.
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he curmudgeonly crime-solver is taking to the stage for the first time in Rebus: Lost Shadows which will visit Nottingham, one of only eight venues on a two-month tour. Meanwhile Ian is promoting his 22nd novel featuring the detective who specialises in flouting authority and doesn’t play by the rules. In A House Of Lies is in the shops this month. With book-signing tours in the UK, Canada and the US, Ian wasn’t able to watch rehearsals for Long Shadows and didn’t get to see the show until it actually opened at Birmingham REP. I chatted with him while he was at home in Edinburgh about whether he found it a problem writing for the stage, why he’s never watched a complete episode of Rebus on television and whether the character who’s now a retired policeman has any life left in him. Ian wrote his first play, Dark Road, with Mark Thomson, artistic director of Edinburgh’s Royal Lyceum Theatre, in 2013. Recently producer Daniel Schumann approached Ian, said he loved the character of Rebus and wanted to put him on the stage. The idea appealed to Ian.
The first novel he had published was The Flood in 1986 and the following year Rebus came to the public’s attention in Knotts & Crosses.
“We decided quite early on that we weren’t interested in taking an existing novel or story and trying to adapt it. We wanted to tell a new story that could really only be told as a stage drama. “He put me in touch with (playwright) Rona Munro, we met and it turned out that she’s a fan of the Rebus novels. Between us we came up with a story that we thought would work really well on stage and then we just started writing. “I think if you asked Rona she would say it was hard work. It wasn’t for me – it was really good fun.” Ian didn’t have a huge say in who would play Rebus on stage. The man chosen is Charlie Lawson, known to millions as Jim McDonald in Coronation Street. I met Charlie at Birmingham REP and he told me Rebus: Long Shadows is the most difficult thing he’s done in the 38 years he’s been an actor. “It’s enormous: it’s 109 pages and 108 of them are me. The challenge is the length and the size of the piece. Parts like this come along once in a blue moon. Sometimes it’s really good to challenge yourself.” The cast also includes John Stahl who plays Rebus’ nemesis, the notorious crime boss “Big Ger” Cafferty,
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and Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated Cathy Tyson who takes the role of Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke. “These are great actors,” says Ian who is excited about seeing the play. “You put great actors and a great script together and you should get some electricity on stage.” It will be fascinating to see Charlie Lawson as Rebus. Some people will no doubt compare him to both John Hannah and Ken Stott who played the detective in four TV series broadcast between 2000 and 2007. But Ian didn’t watch either actor. “You can’t help but see clips and trailers but I’ve never actually sat through a whole episode. I didn’t want actors’ voices and mannerisms to get in the way of the character as I saw it in my head. “I’m less fussy about that now. I think Rebus is ingrained. I don’t think watching it on a stage for a couple of hours is going to change how I write about the characters in the way that watching it over the course of a TV series would. “I remember writers like Colin Dexter who did Inspector Morse saying he changed his Morse to be more like John Thaw because he was so taken by the portrayal on TV. “I didn’t want that to happen; I didn’t want Rebus to start to resemble an actor and not be his own person because for me he was a complete package.” Ian James Rankin OBE was born on 28 April 1960 at Cardenden, Fife. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. He had a number of jobs including working as a grapepicker, a swineherd, a journalist for a hi-fi magazine and a taxman. The first novel he had published was The Flood in 1986 and the following year Rebus came to the public’s attention in Knotts & Crosses. Rebus wasn’t supposed to become a series of books; he died at the end of the first draft of Knotts & Crosses. Thankfully during the editing process Ian gave him a reprieve. Anyone who has ever read one of the Rebus
novels which have been translated into 22 languages will no doubt express their gratitude. Ian has also penned standalone novels as well as books under the pseudonym Jack Harvey. His latest book, In A House Of Lies, features a cold case of a missing private investigator’s body being found locked in a car hidden deep in the woods. It seems every officer on the case has something to hide. Rebus knows where the trail may lead – and it could be the end of him. “Rebus has got older, he can’t use his physical heft to intimidate suspects, he can’t get into fights because these days he would lose. As he gets older, his health isn’t what it was. He now realises he’s not immortal. He’s looking to see if he can still make sense of the world as it keeps changing and what role he can play in that changing world,” says Ian.
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“I’ve really enjoyed the fact that in his later books he’s a very different character from the one we knew ten, 20 or 30 years ago.” So what’s next for Ian? Promotional tours will occupy him until the end of February and then he’ll start thinking about his next novel. “I don’t know when it’ll be finished, I don’t know when it’ll be published. The next book doesn’t have to be delivered until 2020. Next year if I don’t get around to writing a book it’s not a huge issue as long as I come up with an idea and get it started. “Back in the old days I used to write two books a year just to make enough money to live on. Now I’m in the fortunate position where a book every two years gives me enough money to live on. “I seem to be as busy if not busier than ever. People are always coming up with ideas. You’ve just put the idea into my head of a second stage play – I hadn’t thought about that at all.” Before that there’s the tour of Rebus: Long Shadows which joins the increasing number of thrillers being written for the stage. Why are they so popular? “People who read crime fiction like a drink. And theatres like it when you have a drink during the interval. You’ve got to have an interval and you’ve got to get them into the bar drinking. “The woman who runs the bar at the Lyceum Theatre said ‘I’m delighted by your play.’ I said, ‘why, do you like it?’ She said, ‘I’ve not seen it yet but the bar’s full every night!” No doubt people will be raising a glass to Ian Rankin to celebrate the success of both Rebus: Long Shadows and In A House Of Lies.
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A walk around Ilam Hall
Tucked away on a bend of the Manifold river, Ilam Hall village was built in the 1820s on the instructions of Jesse WattsRussell. The original Victorian houses of the village echo the fairy-tale image of the hall, built at a time when skilled labour was cheap. It was also a time when tenants could be moved at the whim of their landlords if, as in this case, he wanted more space or privacy.
Hall and village replaced dwellings of a much earlier vintage, whose history can be traced back to Saxon times. St Bertram, an early Christian missionary, hid himself in a cell near where the river bubbles to the surface below the hall. By his pious example, he persuaded the locals to abandon their pagan beliefs. It is possible he preached at the foot of the rough cross which now stands by his church. Carving on the cross is Viking, dating from around AD900-1000. The church was ‘improved’ by Watts-Russell and its original 17th - century lines are broken by an octagonal mausoleum. The shaft of another stone cross, known as the Battle Cross, was found in the foundations of a
The Ilam Hall we see today, with its Tudor-style chimneys and mock Gothic architecture, is only part of the original building; the central tower and most of the formal rooms were demolished in the 1930s. The rest of the building was due to suffer the same fate when it was bought by Sir Robert McDougall, a Manchester businessman. He had the remaining parts of the hall made habitable and presented it, together with the grounds, to the National Trust, instructing that the hall be used as a youth hostel.
cottage during the rebuilding of the village. It now stands to one side of the riverside walk and is thought to commemorate a battle in AD1050 between local Saxons and invading Danes. The walk starts by following a riverside terrace where the 17th -century dramatist Congreve wrote part of his comedy ‘The Old Bachelor’, then climbs above Hinkley Wood on the opposite bank of the river. Crossing pasture, the walk then joins the abandoned turnpike road from Cheadle (Staffs) to South Yorkshire via Thorpe. The barely discernable line of the old road is followed to Coldwall Bridge where a left turn follows the river back to Ilam.
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• From the car park walk down steps towards the river and turn right along a terraced woodland and riverside path, passing St Bertram’s Well along the way. St Bertram lived in the little cave below which the river bubbles out from a rocky overhang. The water, part of the River Manifold, has travelled about 5 miles (8km) underground from Darfur Bridge near Wetton to emerge at this point. The trees being mostly beech are magnificent in their autumn colours. Battle Cross is a little further on along the path. • Ignore the footbridge on the far side of a field as you pass, but turn left and cross the next and which starts almost next to the path you have followed. • Go over the small field as far as a stile. Climb this and bear left, steeply uphill on a faint path close to the side of Hinkley Wood until the path joins a grassy track. • Turn left along this and follow a boundary wall on your right. Pausing for breath, look back for the view of Ilam Hall seen through its sheltering trees. Beyond it rise Bunster Hill and Thorpe Cloud at the southern entrance to Dovedale. • Cross the dip of a dry valley and aim for a broad track which curves uphill around wooded Hazelton Clump. • Climb over an awkward stile and turn left along the metalled by-road. Follow it across
Blore cross roads to Coldwall Farm. • Turn left away from the road; go through the farmyard and into a field. Walk downhill, tracing the curving route of the abandoned turnpike road. The 16th-century farmhouse, which is set back from the road, was formerly Blore Hall. • Walk down to the bridge, but do not cross and turn left keeping to the west (Blore side), of the river. At first follow a fence above the hawthorn-covered slopes until a gap gives access to the river bank. • Follow the river upstream from Coldwall Bridge. Sturdy buttresses show how this long-abandoned bridge over the River Dove has outlasted its need. • On reaching the road into Ilam village, climb the short flight of steps beside the bridge and turn right, past the memorial cross and into the village. Ilam village. The elaborate cross is a memorial
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to Mrs Watts-Russell, a constant reminder to the villagers of this not over-popular lady. Admire the attractive cottage gardens of the ‘ginger-bread’ styled cottages of Ilam Village. • Turn left into the drive leading to Ilam Hall, then left again past Dovedale House and along a path to the church where a right turn reaches the hall. There is a National Trust shop and café in the grounds.
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Diary Of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk OCTOBER 01 Steve Hackett Genesis Revisited 10 Flawless 4-6 Northern Ballet - The Three Musketeers 5-6 Dave Gorman 6 Beanbag Music Club: Min Y Mas 06 Oct 2018 7 Dylan Moran 9 Cliff Richard 10 James Martin: On the Road 11 Rip It Up the 60’s 12 BBC Philharmonic 12 After Hours: Jess Gillam and Friends 12 The Third Stage Sleep Well... Horror Tales for Late at Night 13-14 UKBFF British Championships 2018 16-20 Shakespeare in Love 16 The Proclaimers 18 Richard Thompson 19 Joanna Lumley 20 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra: The Music of Star Wars 22 Rebus: Long Shadows 23 Theatre During the Wars 23-24 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 25 An Evening with Eric Cantona 26 Kacey Musgraves 27 The Magic Lantern Backstage Tour Music 28 Sunday Morning Piano Series: Julian Clef 28 Caro Emerald 30 Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra 30 to Nov 3 Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat NOVEMBER 1 Grayson Perry: Them & Us 2 Michael Bolton 3 The Magic Lantern Backstage Tour 4 Nottingham Harmonic Choir: War Requiem & Lark Ascending 7 An Evening with King Crimson 7-9 Opera North: Tosca Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre. 01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org OCTOBER 4 John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest 5 Royal Northern College of Music- Faros String Quartet 5 A Beautiful Noise - Fisher Stevens celebrates the life and music of Neil Diamond 5 Buxton Buzz Comedy Club - October 6 Nick Mulvey 7 The Hallé - The Magic of the Musicals 8 Tassels - An Evening of Burlesque 9 Yorkshire Rows - Yorkshire mums row the Atlantic 9 Steeleye Span in Concert 10 Ross Noble - El Hablador 11 Joan Armatrading 11 Chapterhouse Theatre Company Sense and Sensibility 13 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo 14 Pack Up Your Troubles 15 At Last: The Etta James Story 66 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
16 That’ll Be The Day 17 Love, War, Sherry and Tripe 17 Maximum Rhythm n’ Blues with The Manfreds 19-20 Aurora’s Wedding & Ballet Études A Glittering Double Bill 21 Mayerling 21 An Audience with Simon Reeve 22-27 The Case of the Frightened Lady by Edgar Wallace 28 Beethoven & Cherubini NOVEMBER 1-4 David Walliams - Awful Auntie Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk OCTOBER 4-7 Arts & Crafts Fair. 4 Gary Stewart’s Graceland + Zulu Tradition 5-7 Derby Folk Festival 2018 5 Sinfonia Viva: Forever Folk 10 The Devil’s Bride 13 Out of the Box Craft Fair 13 National Madison 2018 13 Thank You For The Music 14 National Omnium 2018 14 All Shook Up 17 The Italian Symphony 19-28 October Half-Term Fun Fair 24-27 The Creation of Frankenstein 27 St Peters Quarter Live 29-Nov 3 Designasaur Workshops 31-Nov 3 Good Toes Naughty Toes NOVEMBER 1-3 Good Toes Naughty Toes 1-3 Designasaur Workshops 1-8 Derby Arena Tour - Here’s your chance to take a tour around Derby Arena Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk OCTOBER 3 Felicity Ward Busting a Nut - Fresh off the back of her new BBC Radio 4 series, Appisodes, and a Netflix special, Live from the BBC, multi-award winning comedian and regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist 7 One Man Stranger Things: A Parody 12-14 Bullish 14 Too Pretty to Punch 23-27 Dishoom! 28 Ross Noble: El Hablador 28 The Missing Light NOVEMBER 1-3 The Snail and the Whale 2 Neil Oliver: The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places 2 A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad) A hilarious cabaret musical about depression, that explains, sings, and throws glitter about how it’s OK not to be OK. 6-10 Guys and Dolls - Good Companions Stage Society Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk OCTOBER 4 Out-Spoken 5-20 Kindertransport. Drama
14 Stewart Francis 19-20 MissImp Improvised Comedy: 20th Anniversary Weekend 21 No Such Thing as a Fish 22 Rich Hall’s Hoedown 23 Steve Peat: Bikes and Beers 24 Ruby Wax, the Monk and the Neuroscientist: How To Be Human 28 Rob Newman’s Total Eclipse of Descartes 28 October Family Fest: The Great Big Bonfire Build 28 to Nov 2 Family Fest 2018 Family Friendly: We bring in the light for a fun-filled week of family activities focused on festivals of light, fire and celebration! NOVEMBER 2-24 The Madness of George III Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre OCTOBER 3 The Rat Pack - Special Guests Kenny Lynch and Anita Harris 4 CPD Session - Dancing Maths 7 The Carpenters Story- Derek Block 9 Ministry of Science 10 Steeleye Span 11 Guess How Much I Love You SelladoorChildren’s Theatre 11 Let’s Hang On 14 Talon Music The Best of Eagles 19 The Johnny Cash Roadshow 20 One Night of Queen - Gary Mullen and The Works 22 Shakespeare Schools Festival 2018 24 This is the Greatest Show 25 The Rocketman - Celebrating the Music of Elton John 26 Twist and Shout 27 Steve Steinman’s Meat Loaf Story - Bat Out of Hell 31 Foster and Allen NOVEMBER 2 Whitney - Queen of the Night 3 The ELO Experience 6-10 Monty Python’s Spamalot the Musical
The “War Horse” Songman Bob Fox in Concert at The Genesis Centre, Alfreton Sunday 4 November - 6pm
A rare chance to see one of Britain’s top folk singers, BOB FOX, taking time out from his role as the Songman at the National Theatre’s production of “War Horse”; without a doubt one of the best productions the National has ever presented to the theatre world. The concert will feature songs from the show, plus songs from Bob’s vast repertoire. He has an impeccable choice of material from the tradition, show will agree that “War Horse” is one plus contemporary gems delivered in his of the best productions that the National relaxed northern style. Bob is an English Theatre has ever staged. A very moving folk guitarist and singer, specialising in traditional and contemporary songs of the portrayal of the horses that helped the British Army in the Great War win the north-east of England and in particular, day. the coal mining communities thereof. In the three and a half years Bob Fox has been in “War Horse”, over one million people have enjoyed the traditionally based music in the show, a larger live audience than most folk singers could ever wish for. Not bad for a folk singer who was invited by Derbyshire actor, singer and songwriter, John Tams, who had written and adapted the music for the National Theatre’s production of “War Horse”, to come to a meeting and offer Bob the role as Songman. Fortunately, Bob was able to accept. John was, and still is, heavily involved in the production of Sir Michael Morpurgo’s Adaptation of his Book, “War Horse”, and both Bob and John Tams are proud of the big part they play in the very best of British Theatre. I am sure the readers who have seen the
Also appearing on the Show is one of the best young bands to emerge on the music scene, BBC Radio 2 Folk Award Winners, Granny’s Attic, three young men playing guitar, melodeon and fiddle with unique arrangements of traditional songs delivered with style and enthusiasm.
Shakespeare in Love
Theatre Royal Nottingham Tuesday 16 – Saturday 20 October 2018 Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard and adapted for the stage by Lee Hall with music by Paddy Cunneen. Young Will Shakespeare has writer’s block… the deadline for his new play – a comedy called Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter – is fast approaching, he’s struggling to finish the first line of a sonnet and he’s in dire need of inspiration. Then he meets the beguiling Viola de Lesseps, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant. Viola is prepared to do anything – including risking the frosty disapproval of Queen Elizabeth I – to fulfil her illicit dream of performing on the London stage and pursuing a passionate affair with the greatest playwright of the age. Pierro Niel-Mee will star as Will Shakespeare with Imogen Daines as Viola, Rob Edwards as Fennyman, Geraldine Alexander as the Queen, Edmund Kingsley as Kit Marlowe and many others.
If you are among the many thousands who have enjoyed “War Horse”, then this is your chance to listen to the Songman in the intimate surroundings of the Genesis Centre. This is an early evening concert, 6pm ‘til approximately 9pm. Tickets are £18.50, under 16s £10 available from Derby Live Box Office 01332 255800, www.derbylive.co.uk, or Ticket Hotline 01773 85342
See Sense (and sensibility) and join us at Buxton Opera House for a Jane Austen classic Published back in 1811, Sense and Sensibility remains on of Jane Austen’s favourite works. The Dashwood sisters Elinor and Marianne face the trials and tribulations of growing up in Regency society. Following the death of their father, the sisters find themselves in a small cottage in the country after they are removed from the family home. The sisters experience love, romance, and heartbreak as together they must find the balance between Sense and Sensibility. Sense and Sensibility: Thursday 11 October at 7.30pm. Tickets: £15 (adults) £10 (children/students) Contact Box Office, 01298 72190 or visit: www.buxtonoperahouse.org.uk
Murder for Two
The Off-Broadway hit comes to Theatre Royal Nottingham from 26 to 28 November 2018. Following acclaimed runs in New York and London, Murder For Two is heading to Nottingham this Autumn, playing at the Theatre Royal from Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 November. When famous novelist Arthur Whitney is found dead at his birthday party, it’s time to call in the detectives. The only problem is, they’re out of town. Enter Officer Marcus Moscowicz, a neighbourhood cop who dreams of climbing the ranks. With the clock ticking, it’s up to Marcus to prove his super sleuthing skills and solve the crime before the real detective arrives… A hilarious high-energy musical whodunit, Murder For Two is a madcap murder mystery with a twist. Two actors play thirteen characters - and the piano - in this acclaimed new musical. A loving homage to the canon of murder mystery plays, Murder For Two is a hysterical blend of music, mayhem and murder.
Juliet & Romeo A Guide to Long Life and Happy Marriage by “Lost Dog Dance” Saturday 17th November 2018 - 7:30 pm at Crich Glebe Field Centre (DE4 5EU)
Juliet and Romeo - a humorous and heartfelt investigation into love, loss and longevity. Lost Dog’s new show reveals the real story of Romeo and Juliet. It turns out they didn’t die in a tragic misunderstanding, they grew up and lived happily ever after. Well they lived at least. Now they are 40ish, and at least one of them is in the grips of a mid-life crisis. They feel constantly mocked by their teenage selves, and haunted by the pressures of being the poster couple for romantic love. They have decided to confront their current struggles by putting on a performance - about themselves. Suitable for those aged 13 and over CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 67
Diary Of Events Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water. Despite the heat there are still many birds, now with young, around the water and a good opportunity to let our experts point out the juveniles searching for food. The next Beginners walk, which is held on the first Sunday of EVERY month, is on Sunday 7th October. Book by contacting Carsington or for more information, 01629 540696 or just drop in to reception. If you don’t want to miss the birds binoculars are essential!! Future dates:– November 4. Happy Birding.”
Ashfield Harmony Concert Singing group, Ashfield Harmony, will be joined by award-winning local band, Newstead Brass, to celebrate over 100 years of popular music at their next concert on Saturday 17th November at Ashfield School, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. From songs that were being hummed as World War I ended in 1918 to the modern hits of today from Coldplay and Snow Patrol, and including tributes to Queen, The Beach Boys and some Liverpool legends, ‘Pick Of The Pops’ is sure to include music to please everyone. Starting at 7.00pm, Ashfield Harmony’s concert, ‘Pick Of The Pops’, will be held on Saturday 17th November 2018 at Ashfield School, Sutton Road, Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Tickets are £8 each and can be reserved by contacting Concert Secretary, Carolynne Bennett, on 01773 775176’. Do come along for a wonderful musical November’s evening! Breadsall Memorial Hall 28 October, Indoor Car Boot/Table Top/Jumble Sale 10am-12 noon. Brookside Road, Breadsall DE21 5LF. 16 tables. Admission 50p. Light refreshments. Breadsall Memorial Hall 13 October, Guitar music of Spain and Latin America and beyond with award winning classical guitarist James Rippingale. Saturday, 7.30 pm. Bar open 7 pm. Tickets £10 from Chris on 01332 831577 or Joan on 01332 831564 Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 19 October ‘The life of William Cottman Awarded VC’ by Tim Cottman. All meetings start at 7.30pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS There is a charge of £1 for members of the Historical Group and £3 for visitors. For further information contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837 To find out more about the Historical Group, take a look at their blog: https://darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress.com/ Heanor Floral Art Group . Monday October 15th Demonstration by Beverley Artis entitled Name that Tune at 7oclock . Venue Wilmot Street Welfare Centre .Wilmot Street. Heanor . Visitors £5 everyone welcome . For further details contact 01332-880179 . Music at Duffield presents Alma Trio October 5th at 7.30pm (doors open 7pm) Ecclesbourne School, Duffield, Derbyshire, DE56 4GS Clark’s Hornpipe Sztajer/Krivo sadovsko Bourrees --- Jigs
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The Great Hall/Sussex Waltz Tomkins Toolbox/ Daichovo Horo Koster/The Pink House Bishop of Chester’s Jig/ Winterbourne Kettle Drum/Cuckoo’s Nest Slangpolska Welsh set - - Lounga/Um Saed Inspired by fiddle traditions from England and across the world, at the heart of Alma’s music is the joyful sound of fiddles playing in harmony. Each member brings their own style and influence, including John’s work in the English Acoustic Collective, Emily’s experience in early music and Adrian’s knowledge of Eastern European music. Ticket prices: Adult £15, Concession £14, Student £7 Individual tickets are available at the door or from Caroline Morgan (Tel: 01332 843191) and also online at www. musicatduffield.com For further details about Music at Duffield and future concerts please visit our website www.musicatduffield.com Bestwood MVC – Annual Gala Concert – ‘With A Voice of Singing’ Retired fireman and Chairman of Bestwood MVC, Colin Pursglove met the ‘Singing Fireman’, Andy Quinn at ‘his office’, the London Road Fire Station recently. Proceeds from the concert will go to Councillor Barbara Miller, the Worshipful Mayor of Gedling’s chosen charity, Prostate Cancer Research. Tickets for the concert are £12.00 (£5.00 16 and under), available from Colin Pursglove on 01159 794842, online at www.bestwoodmvc.org.uk or on the door. Allestree Flower Group 16th October 2018 Flower demonstration by Susan Maddocks 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
Derby French Circle (Cercle Francais De Derby) www.derbyfrenchcircle. org.uk 5 October. Impressionist Painters in London. A talk by Catherine Greensmith 19 October. Railways in France. A talk by John Dixon Talks, social and cultural events. Please come and join us for conversation and games in French. All levels of French spoken. Students £3 & Visitors £7 per meeting. Season Ticket £40. Venue: St Edmund’s Church Hall, Kings Croft, Allestree, Derby DE22 2FN. on the Friday evenings listed below, from 7.15pm. 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. We organise a variety of enjoyable social events throughout the year. Why not join for one of our evening meetings: Tuesday 16th October “The Bentley Boys” David Skillen tells us about the devil may care attitude of the men who raced the Bentley cars in the Roaring Twenties and tales of their exploits that led to their name. meet at Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby with talks starting 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 very welcome.
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Derby RSPB local group warmly invites you to join them on Sunday 21 Oct for a FREE Birdwatching Walk at RSPB Old Moor, Barnsley Yorkshire. Please meet in the reserve car park at 9.30am. Postcode S73 0YF. This is a good place to visit and watch wildlife with a number of hides and good paths. The morning walk will finish at about 12.30pm with the option of staying after lunch if you wish. Cafe and toilets on site. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/ groups/derby Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club 6th. Oct. 2018 - our guest professional demonstrator this month is Robert Till, woodturner. 3rd. Nov. 2018 - this is a hands-on meeting when members will be working on woodturning, woodcarving, pyrography, marquetry and scroll saw work. Additionally, members Tony Reindorp and Terry Cambridge will be conducting a marquetry workshop for anyone interested. Come along if you want to give it a go! First visit is FREE! For more information go to www.ddwc.co.uk where you can see reports with photos of previous meetings, including competition results, and read past newsletters. If you would like to know more about the club, email your query to info@ddwc.co.uk or phone James Sharpe on 01335 344933. Mickleover Model Railway Group 7th and 8th October 2017. Mickleover Community Centre, Uttoxeter Road, Mickleover, Derby, DE3 0DA. 2nd Revolution Quilters. 2018 Quilting Show. Saturday 13th October and Sunday 14th October. 10.00am – 4.00pm Pentrich Village Hall, Derbyshire DE5 3RE Admission £1. Refreshments. Trader sales table, charity quilt raffle in aid of Derbyshire Stroke Centre.
Spondon Historical Society ‘Spondon Historical Society will meet at 7.30pm on Monday October 8th 2018 at Spondon Village Hall, Sitwell Street, Spondon DE21 7FG when Bob Neill will bring another box of ‘Bits & Pieces’ for us to ponder over! Everyone is welcome, Visitors £4.00 and Members £2.50. This is always an enjoyable evening so if you haven’t been before then come and join us Folk And Acoustic Music
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s the year drifts slowly in to Autumn the chill in the air indicates that it’s time to put away the short sleeve shirts and shorts and consign the thoughts of dining al fresco to next Summer. The longer nights need a cosy atmosphere, pleasant surroundings, attentive service and, of course, excellent food.
One Saturday evening, in search of this quartet of goodies, we made our way to Morley Hayes. The hotel and golf complex is home to three restaurants, The Dovecote, Roosters, and The Spike Bar, offering a range of dining experiences from fine dining to informal bar snacks. Our destination was the Dovecote; a restaurant that has earned a reputation as one of the finest in Derbyshire. We were greeted with a warm welcome as we stepped in to the stylish, contemporary surroundings of the Dovecote’s bar and without any fuss our pre-dinner drinks order was taken and canapés served. These were a selection of green and black olives and 2 bite sized tomato shortbreads toped with cream cheese and diced black olives. Ideal savoury accompaniments to the first drinks of the evening. We relaxed in the bar, chatted, read through the menu and with a little advice from restaurant manager Simon, made our choices. The chefs use seasonal, locally-sourced ingredients to create the mouth-watering menu, so local that the Dexter ribeye is from a farm in the neighbouring village. Just as we finished our drinks our waitress appeared and showed us to our candlelit table in the restaurant. The Dovecote’s interior has been designed in such a way that it doesn’t hide the original structure but still creates a variety of spaces and, with the creative use of lighting and fabrics, a cosy atmosphere. As we waited we nibbled on a selection of warm breads. For her starter Susan chose the duck liver parfait with cherries and whole wheat crackers. The fruity black cherry cut through the rich, silky-smooth
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parfait and, along with the crisp texture of the cracker, it created a perfect first course. I selected the cep mushroom velouté. The velouté was rich with mushroom flavour. It was served with pickled mushrooms and egg yoke on a lightly grilled piece of sour dough. This added a sweet note and a crisp texture in contrast to the earthy, smooth bowl of tasty mushrooms. Our mains arrived picture perfect. Susan’s was the dry aged duck breast which she’d asked to be served just a little pink. It was soft and perfectly pink. The sliced duck was served with crispy edged panhaggerty potatoes and French beans that had retained all their flavour and still had a little ‘snap’. A revelation was the elderberry sauce. It enhanced the duck with its floral taste; it was not too sweet and not too fruity. My main was the rare breed belly pork with sweetcorn, roasted shallots and char grilled baby leeks. This was served with a generous slice of Spanish morcilla sausage.
was my choice. An incredibly thin, crisp pastry case was filled with a toffee flavoured, treacle mixture that only attained its full sweetness when it warmed and hit the back of my mouth. A pudding from my childhood served with clotted cream. We thanked Simon and his staff for their faultless, professional service throughout the evening and made our way out to the well lit car park. It was a mild September evening and I wondered if perhaps Summer hadn’t quite said ‘goodbye’ to 2018. The Dovecote deserves its fine dining status. Within easy reach of Derby and Nottingham and set in the Derbyshire countryside with delightful views over the golf course, the restaurant is ideal for family celebrations or enjoying a quiet candle-lit meal for two. With set lunch and dinner menus along with an a la carte menu, you’ll be spoilt for choice. It also offers indulgent afternoon teas and champagne breakfasts for that special celebration.
The shallots and leeks complimented the melt in the mouth pork which had the ‘just right’ balance of meat to fat ratio. Susan chose a pleasant Sauvignon Blanc to go with her meal and I opted for a glass of Malbec; with its inky dark colour and robust tannins it was an ideal partner to the pork. We decided to end the evening with a dessert each. For Susan it was the Dovecote’s baba. A calvados soaked yeast cake; topped with fresh black berries and a quenelle of fruity ice cream. The treacle tart CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 73
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very so often I get the urge to become a self-sufficient Earth goddess, growing gigantic marrows and making jam from fruit I have nurtured from a pip. Sadly, the only things which get to munch on my apples are worms and, once again, the rhubarb has wilted all over the path. Which is why I feel humbled, fascinated and thrilled to meet Charlie Stayt; a home-grower who utilises every nook and cranny of her pretty cottage garden as a bountiful larder which supplies food for her family and forms the basis of a thriving food business, Charlie’s Country Garden. In a whirl-wind tour of the lush, multilevel garden on a hillside in Bakewell, Charlie tells me why her shrubs, trees and plants are more than their leafy, flowering parts.
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The plant pots by the door contain everything Charlie could ever need for an instant salad. The clump of hot pink daisy flowers is echinacea; used as a tincture to treat family colds. The over-grown shrub is not simply there as shade for the patio – it’s a rosehip which Charlie plunders for fruit and turns into a syrup which has become a must-have for her older customers. “They remember it from their childhood and love its traditional flavour,” Charlie (40), says while showing me a green, as yet unripe, Rosehip berry. “But some of my customers say it has a beneficial effect on their joints. It’s also a good source of Vitamin C, as is my raspberry vinegar. You can use a dessert spoon of it in boiled water and gargle. It’s also great on salads.” And if Charlie’s own garden cannot come up with the goods; she’ll take a trip to her allotment – currently home to 30 fine lettuces – or embark on a foraging mission accompanied
by partner Lee Woodall and children George, who is three and Robin, who has just turned one. “The Peak District is such a great location for us; we practically live outdoors,” Charlie says. “There are around four or five places along the Wye Valley which, in the Spring, are great for picking wild garlic. My customers cannot get enough of it. But we’re responsible foragers – we only take what we need and only a few leaves from each plant. Using this method, rather than taking from a few plants, can sometimes take up to two hours to collect five kilograms of wild garlic which is enough for a two-litre batch of pesto or salad dressing.” Talking to Charlie, you sense how important it is for each and every ingredient to be home-grown, foraged or donated by willing friends and neighbours (often in exchange for a jar of chutney or bottle of dressing). “We used to live in Devon but I can’t
one of her cook books.” “It’s a National Trust cookery book and must be one of the first of its kind. It’s full of traditional recipes like the one for the rosehip syrup and something called ‘Imperial Pop’ which is a drink using ginger and spices made just after the war. It also shows you how to make jams, preserves and chutneys using ‘old fashioned’ fruits like quince and meddlers. I cherish this book so much, it’s full of her hand-written comments.” Charlie used her gran’s recipes as a basis for her own cookery; “I worked as a nanny for 18 years. One of the couples I worked for were big foodies and I’d help them cook for dinners and parties,” she explains. “They also had a huge orchard so I’d make things with the fruit like stewed apples, tarts, pies and sloe gin. I couldn’t bear fruit going to waste so I’d even take apples and pears to give out when I collected the children from school.” Charlie also made some produce to raise funds at the school fete. “I made jams and chutneys and decorated the jars with scraps of fabric. We completely sold out,” she smiles. “At the school’s markets, I made up some hampers – putting in some homemade fudge and tiffin - and decorated everything with dried oranges, chilli and holly leaves. People asked if I’d take their orders as they wanted some for presents.” Once again, Charlie’s stall was a sellout and her employers encouraged her to keep up the home-produce business - which she called Charlie’s Country Garden – in her spare time.
see us moving south again because people have been so friendly and supportive. For instance, I have a friend near Chesterfield who has an orchard and she lets me pick apples, pears and blackberries in return for a few lifts as she doesn’t drive,” Charlie explains.
bottles are crammed with good stuff – her jam is 65 per cent fruit – and low in cheaper ingredients like vinegar and sugar. This explains why some customers arrange their holidays to the Peak District around Charlie’s appearances at local markets and food festivals.
“I also have neighbours and customers who let me have their apples or rhubarb. I try to give them some of the finished products as a thank you – but they’ll usually only take one. I think they can see I’m just running a small company and people are happy to help.”
“I’d say 60 per cent of my customers are regulars – both locals and tourists. One lady plans her holidays around the wild garlic season in the spring so she can buy my pesto and dressing,” Charlie says.
Charlie is also keen to pass on support to other local businesses; “Lee and I hardly use the car as we like to support independent local shops. “I like to use local suppliers. My herbs come from Hathersage, I’ve picked berries at a nursery in Dronfield and the cold pressed rape seed is by Brock and Morton, who are based in Ashford in the Water. They don’t spray the crop and it’s got a lovely earthy, nutty flavour.” It’s clear Charlie puts her all into each and every product. Charlie’s jars and
“The feed-back we get has been amazing.” Charlie has always had a fascination with the countryside and cooking; “My mum and gran inspired my love of cooking.” “I was the youngest of three and, when my mum went back to work part-time, I’d stay with my gran who lived in a pictureperfect Cotswold’s village called Laverton. My grandparents were farm workers and lived a traditional country life. They didn’t have a TV, telephone or car so we’d cook for hours often using berries we’d foraged on our walks.” Charlie’s gran died in 1996; “I inherited
“My employer held a senior post at a Devonshire hospital and every year would give a bottle of wine or chocolates to around 92 nursing staff,” Charlie recalls. “When I started my little business, I was asked to do some handmade gifts for them to a £10 budget on each one. I was doing everything by hand including the free-hand drawings on every label and decorating the jars but I loved it. I’ve always been quite arty. I’m dyslexic so I think I express my creative side through the jams and chutneys.” In 2011, Charlie and Lee moved to Sheffield; “Lee was awarded funding to study for his Masters in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield,” Charlie says. “After we moved, I decided to give up nannying and do my business full-time. We did lots of markets – everything from farmer’s markets to school fetes. I only had a little inner-city garden but it was full of around 150 pots, all my friends said it was like stepping into the countryside.” Charlie and Lee also spent a lot of time exploring the beautiful countryside around their home and would often head off into the Derbyshire peaks. “When Lee finished his degree, we knew we wanted to move to the Peak District. CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk | 77
We looked at houses in a lot of villages but when we found our Bakewell cottage we knew it was the one as it had pretty views from every window,” Charlie recalls. “Bakewell also has a famous farmer’s market every month to showcase local products. When we moved, four years ago, I rang the organisers and was told there was a long waiting list but I rang so many times – I think I wore them down. Eventually, they gave me a stall in the following January and we went all out to make it look really pretty using hemp cloth and custom-made boxes.” Even in the quietest month of the year, Charlie’s stall was a big hit; “My third customer was Lady Edward Manners of Haddon Hall,” Charlie smiles.“ Like many 78 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk
of the people I met that day – she’s gone on to become a loyal customer.”
We’ll keep things bubbling along until both boys are at school and Lee will resume his own career.”
As Charlie started to expand her business into more markets – and putting her goods into local delicatessens and shops – she realised she needed help.
Watching Robin toddling around – he’s fascinated by Charlie’s neighbours who are out doing some pruning – it seems like an idyllic childhood. If the boys ever get bored of their magical garden, the family simply stroll up the hill to nearby fields which look over the Bakewell countryside.
“I was pregnant with George and, as both mine and Lee’s parents live miles away, he offered to join me in the business,” Charlie explains. “Lee helps with the cooking, bottling, labelling and he’s really popular with the customers at the markets. Having us both around works really well with the boys. We can sit and stick labels on the bottles while Robin plays with his toys. It’s the reason why we don’t want to expand the business at this stage.
“We come here to have picnics in the summer, to watch the fireworks in November and to sledge when it snows,” Charlie reveals whilst we survey the surrounding, breath-taking, views. “George loves it because the local farmer brings his sheep here when they’re lambing. He even names them. It made us laugh
Stockists The Hartington Cheese Shop – branches in Hartington, Bakewell and Cromford White’s Spar Store, Calver Bakewell Deli, Bakewell Chinley Cheese, based at the old Post Office, Chinley The Loaf, in Crich. The Derbyshire Wildlife Trust shops in Belper and Bakewell.
as one of the lambs was almost bald and he named it ‘fluffy’. I love it up here and it’s the perfect place to pick elderflowers.” Back at the cottage, Charlie invites me into the kitchen to sample a refreshing elderflower cordial and some of her dressings and sauces. They are all full of vibrant colours and dense flavours but one – English Garden dressing – is an embodiment of Charlie’s own garden as it’s light, summery, fresh and jam-packed with herbs. “It’s one of the most popular sellers. Our regular customers say it’s delicious and use it as a dip and marinade as well as on salads,” Charlie says. “That’s why it’s important to use high quality
cold-pressed rape seed oil, cider and wine vinegars and fresh herbs. I know some companies keep their costs down by using more vinegar and fewer herbs. I’m sure no one would even notice if I used cheaper vinegars – but I would. It’s why I like making small batches in an open pan. Something is always lost when you’re not there to watch the pot - it must be the love.” At this point Luke Osborne arrives to pick up stock from Charlie, which he sells, principally through his website Sauced Here, with other quality products made in and around the Derbyshire Peaks. “This batch is destined for a hamper which will be put into holiday
cottages,” Luke smiles. “The owners tell us a welcome basket, stuffed with local goodies, helps the guests start their holidays on a positive note - so they’re more willing to forgive that unexpected blown lightbulb or the like.” Charlie’s Country Garden products can be found at the following markets; Bakewell Farmer’s Market – held on the last Saturday of the month Belper Food Festival, the next one will be held on December 9th The Winter Artisan Market at Haddon Hall which takes place on November 17,18,19th.
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Something new to fall in love with A stunning collection of New Michaela Louisa dresses and co-ordinating jackets in beautiful Autumn colours. The collection is perfect for all occasions. Jillian Hart Fashions also stock matching hats, fascinators, shoes and handbags to match. The shop is located at 40-44 Babington Lane, Derby. Tel: 01332 347647
Animal print is everywhere this season. This classic little wool mix skirt by InWear looks fantastic with a bright coloured sweater, thick tights and boots. £79.95 from This Boutique, Belper.
Now open Glam@Hallashair salon in the heart of Belper A unique award winning salon offering a unique pampering service from hair extensions to bouncy blow dries, lash and brow treatments, semi permanent makeup and pre-teen make up classes. Call in and meet our friendly team. Its time to spoil yourself. Glam team.x 70a King Street, Belper.
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2 King Street, Belper (opp. HSBC) Open Mon - Sat 9.30am - 5pm
2 King Street, Belper (opp. HSBC) Open Mon - Sat 9.30am - 5pm
Hurst Opticians
5/7 High Street Ripley
NEW AUTUMN COLLECTION
Tel 01773 824192 www.thisboutique.com
01773 748112/744333
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FREE Sight Tests for over 60s and children under NHS *Conditions apply, when you order selected frames and lenses to include single vision.
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SALON
in the heart of Belper A multi award winning salon offering a unique pampering service
SALON AWARD 2018/19
For outstanding performance as a hair extension expert. Great Lengths hair extensions can be applied to add thickness and colour to your natural hair, giving you the voluminous locks and depth you’ve always dreamed of.
Makeup Bar Bouncy Blow Dry Put Ups Lash Lift Aesthetics Clinic
We also offer… Pre-Teen makeup classes with a professional makeup artist. Also hair and makeup masterclasses
LASH & BROW BAR Lash lift, tint, curl and brow tint (last up to 8 weeks. No mascara needed). Semi permanent makeup. Dermaplaning (Removes top layer of dead skin and vellus hair).
Bridal & Prom… Trust us to go that extra mile & cater to your every need on your special day
GO ON SPOIL YOURSELF Glam Team.xx The
70a King Street, Belper DE56 1PZ
07825 148630
Follows us on Facebook & Instagram for exclusive offers
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Entrance to the salon is via Strutt Street, opposite Fresh Basil.
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For beautiful frames at discounted prices, visit Hurst Opticians, High Street Ripley
Official Tissot agent John Stevenson Jewellers of Chesterfield presents the new Seastar, with new 80 hour power reserve. The watch handles pressure to 1000ft and is available with rubber strap or stainless steel bracelet. ÂŁ545 2a Glumangate Chesterfield S40 1TP 01246 270706 johnstevensonjewellers.com
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Watch Servicing & Repairs for all fine Swiss made watches including
Official OMEGA Service Store We also repair jewellery from sizing a ring to remodelling an older item with our designs
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The pre-owned Rolex specialists
Above: John (left) and Ben Stevenson, at the International Jewellery London Exhibition.
Exquisite watches bought and sold
JEWELLERY REPAIRS | WATCH REPAIRS & BATTERIES REPLACED | UNWANTED JEWELLERY & GOLD PURCHASED
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Hair stroke brows - Lasts up to 3 years Special offer at £295 for limited time only Brows can literally transform a face and is the most important feature for face definition. Book now at Prestige beauty clinic and hair studio Belper. 01773 820000
Don’t miss the Family fun event in Belper on October 26th and 27th. Visit Cheeky Bambini
Cheeky Bambini and many of Belper’s independent retailers will be hosting a family fun event on 26-27 October. . Look out for the posters around town and make sure you’ve got your little ones outfit ready. I have pumpkin and bat leggings in store now. Cheeky Bambini, 122 Bridge Street, Belper DE56 1AZ
Lovely earrings, bracelets and necklaces. Jewellery in rose gold, gold and silver, the perfect accessory to compliment your Autumn outfit! Frox, Draycott Mill, Draycott, Derbyshire. Tel: 01332 875572 www.froxshop.com
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BEAUTY CLINIC HAIR STUDIO
& OPEN DAY
THURSDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2018 1-9pm
Demonstrations of our
Need a new Colour? Stylist? Look? Call for a free consultation
Beauty Treatments Special offers on treatments booked on the day FREE samples Refreshments All Welcome
25% OFF ALL HAIR COLOURS (new clients only)*
Our friendly, professional stylists offer you: Matrix hair colour
Joico hair care
I.P.L. With winter upon us, now is the time to permanently remove unwanted body hair, pigmentation, thread veins for next summer.
NEW FOR 2018…
Before
Semi permanent make up by Michelle
Hair Stroke Brows Lasts up to 3 years
Brows can literally transform a face and is the most important feature for face definition. Permanent make up is the fastest growing must have. Having the luxury to wake up with make up everyday not only saves you time but also ensures it stays in place!
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Michelle takes pride in bringing out the best in her clients with the ultra natural looking hair stroke eyebrow. Its her passion and work ethic she is renowned for.
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Put the Spring Back in Your Skin with Pro-Collagen
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Imagine the bloom of youth regained. Imagine an anti-ageing cream so advanced and so natural, it mimics the skin’s own function, transforming your complexion in just two weeks. Introducing revolutionary Pro-Collagen Marine Cream from leading British Spa Brand ELEMIS, clinically proven to increase hydration by up to 177% in 1 hour and by 248% in 12 hours*. With 1 now sold every 9 seconds globally Pro-Collagen Marine Cream challenges traditional anti-ageing skincare by combining ground-breaking natural marine ingredients, with the very latest in scientific research, producing a dynamic anti-ageing cream which dramatically increases skin elasticity, suppleness, firmness and hydration levels. On application, this high-tech cream penetrates the skin’s layers at a deeper level, moisturising the cells and increasing hydration by 177%*. The cream also works on smoothing the skin’s surface, providing an accelerated lifting effect through increased collagen support. After 14 days the skin takes on a smoother, plumper more youthful appearance.
Pro-Collagen quartz lift serum. I didn’t notice an immediate difference, however after 3 weeks the tone of my skin feels firmer and the fine lines at the corners of my eyes are softening. Applying moisturiser on top is easy, and my skin felt healthy. VP
The jewel of the Pro-Collagen Collection, Quartz Lift Serum contains the purest concentration of the marine extract Padina Pavonica empowered with precious minerals, to help support cell structure and strengthen the epidermis. A powerful light serum that imparts an immediate lifting and firming effect on the skin. Utilising Padina Pavonica, precious minerals Quartz and Rhodochrosite and Argan Tree Oil, this breakthrough serum helps to promote cellular activity, stimulate cell renewal and support cell structure.
Pro-Collagen Eye Renewal £67.50 15ml
An intensive eye cream containing a unique synergy of potent seaweeds and volcanic algaes that cleverly mimic the skin’s function for a visible restructuring effect on the eye area. This revolutionary cream-gel texture is lightweight and glides on easily to dramatically smooth fine lines without overloading the delicate eye area or causing puffiness.
Pro-Collagen Marine cream. Firstly, this lovely product smelled just fresh and clean, no overpowering herbs or florals. Although it hydrated my skin really well it did so without greasiness or feeling sticky. It seemed to boost my complexion. Great product. JP
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Fitness Buddy Tailor made women’s training
Get motivated, get fit with a Personal Trainer in your own home Do you want to: Lose Weight? Tone Up? Get Fitter & Healthier? But are too busy for the gym?
Nutrition • Weight Loss • Health t: 07720 743 064 e: fitness-buddy@hotmail.com
www.fitness-buddy.co.uk Level 3 Diploma (Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor) and a Level 3 Diploma in Sports Nutrition.
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Transform your smile with braces. Our calm and caring dentists offer fast, virtually invisible and removable braces for adults and teens. Nervous patients welcome. Call us now to book your FREE consultation. * Interest free credit available *
Glendair Dental Practice Limes Avenue, Alfreton, DE55 7DW
01773 832164
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DERBYSHIRE’S BEST
TRUSTED TRADERS
COLIN GREEN **ROOM REVIVAL**
From Papering a Wall to Total Room Refurbishment A Complete Service
• Decorating • Joinery, Coving, Dado etc • Laminate Flooring • Kitchen Fitting To discuss your requirements and for a free quotation
Central Heating Installations • Complete Energy saving systems – designed & installed • Boiler and Radiator swaps • Boiler servicing & landlord’s certificates • All aspects of plumbing undertaken Meadow Road, Ripley DE5 3EP Email: sales@markdenton.eu www.markdenton.eu
T: 01773 513208
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The Gate Maker
Made to measure Gates, Railings & Ironwork Phone NOW for your FREE on site quotation Fitting Service Available
J H JOINERY SERVICES LTD
Over 25 years’ experience
All joinery work undertaken
Dove Bow Top Double Gates 4 ft high 7 ft gap only £462 4 ft high 12 ft gap only £792 6 ft high 7 ft gap only £714 6 ft high 12 ft gap only £1224
Dove Flat Top Double Gates 3 ft high 7 ft gap only £399 3 ft high 12 ft gap only £684 6 ft high 7 ft gap only £630 6 ft high 12 ft gap only £1080
All gates come complete with brackets tofit to wall or existing post (posts not included)
01773 745822
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Motor Bike Frames, Garden Furniture Collection Service Available for a small charge
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Bedrooms fitted UPVC windows doors & conservatories Loft Conversions Kitchen Installation Specialist For a free quotation call Justin on
T:01773 775166 M:07815 287092 www.jhjoineryservices.co.uk
Amber Valley Driveways For a professional finish on: Blockpaving • Fencing Tarmac drives & paths laid Patios & slabbing • Excavation • Power jet cleaning for drives, patios, block paving etc.
Phone Brendan on
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All types of work undertaken, Kitchen Work Top Replacements, Kitchens, Joinery & UPVC work undertaken Over 45 years’ experience (Time served City & Guilds) For free quotations please call
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TO ADVERTISE Traditional and modern slating, re-bedding chimney pots and ridges, industrial and residential roof & Guttering cleaning, fibre glass roofs. Groundwork Fencing, paths, patios. Flagstones, slabbing Building Repointing walls and chimneys, windows doors fascias & Soffit, extensions, conservatories. Insurance work undertaken For your free quotation please call Darren Hutsby on
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• Full Insurance Backed Guarantee • Shoot- Bolt Locking With Push Button (Autolock Handles as Standard) • High Security Internal Glazing Bead as Standard • A Rated Energy Efficient Windows As Standard • Hook Bolt Door Locks as Standard All kinds of repairs undertaken. Replacement Handles,Hinges and Door Furniture Including Double Glazing Repairs and Misted Up Glass Units
No High Pressure Sales – Guaranteed • Each Quotation Attended by the Proprietor • Our own Fully Experienced Installers, No Sub-Contractors • 20 Years’ Experience in the Window Trade
Tel: 01773 747265 Mobile: 07967 419 504 Email: weatherseal01@live.co.uk
SUNSET WINDOWS
The Area’s Favourite Window Company
WINDOWS DOORS CONSERVATORIES FASCIAS & SOFFITS REPAIR WORK Head Office/Showroom 28 Church Street Ripley Derbyshire DE5 3BU
Tel:01773 513339
www.sunset-windows.co.uk
A Local Family Run Company
COLLEDGE AERIALS Established 1965
Digital Aerials Freesat and Sky Multipoint
LOCAL TRUSTWORTHY INSTALLERS FREE QUOTES ALL WORK FULLY GUARANTEED
T: 01773 742387 M: 07973 676799
Family Business
PLUMBING AND GAS For a friendly, reliable service call Ian for all your plumbing needs including:
• Central heating installation & repair • Boiler servicing & replacement • Gas fires & cookers • Bathrooms & showers fitted • Landlord certificates
CALL 07870 583666 Worcester Credit Installer 10 Years Warranty on all Worcester Boilers
CONTRACT PLANNING SERVICES Established 1979
‘530247’
• Why move? Extend your property and invest in your home • Plans drawn to your requirements • Plans and forms completed to council standards • Free estimates
Please call Phil Lingwood
on 01773 742936 or 07811810761
www.contract-planningservices.co.uk
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ELECTRICAL SERVICES LIMITED
* Very competitive rates * Underfloor heating * Extra sockets to a full re-wire * Showers and extractor fans * Security garden lighting * All work undertaken
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Just replace the doors and worktops It’s so easy! Not only will a Dream Doors makeover save you £1000s, but you will not have to suffer the stress, upheaval and mess that comes with a traditional refit.
DREAM DOORS NEW LIFE FOR OLD KITCHENS
Visit our Derbyshire showrooms or call to book your FREE survey and quote: 20 The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BE T: 01332 290600 197 Sheffield Road, Chesterfield, S41 7JQ T: 01246 888786 www.dreamdoors.co.uk
Contact Top Hat on
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RICHARD BOOTH UPHOLSTERY
*Re-Upholstery *Loose Covers *Bespoke *Wide selection of fabrics 1 New Road, Heage, Derbyshire
01773 853338
All Aspects Of Plastering We have over 20 years experience – you can be assured of quality work
All aspects of heating and plumbing including New Boilers • New Central Heating Service and Repairs • Landlord Certificates
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Re-Skimming • Dry Lining • Rendering • Artex Removal •Small Repairs to Full Renovations
Patrick O’Neill Plastering Tel: 0780 701 6747 or 01773 434258
Worcester Bosch Accredited Installer Fully Insured
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Interesting items for antique buyers
FOR SALE
18th Century Tavern Table Call for viewing 01773 832 485
JOHN’S SOFA STUDIO UPHOLSTERY RE-UPHOLSTERY REPAIRS All work carried out by our own skilled craftsmen with over 20 years of experience.
Based in Duffield we are polite, friendly, clean and tidy
Clean Reliable Service
Home visits a pleasure for a Free Quotation for re-upholstery or furniture repair.
www.martynyoungheating.com
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Mobile: 07960 849642
Please call 07974 314280 martynyoung.heating@sky.com
All projects considered
A and A Building Services
Renovation works • Extensions Kitchens & Bathrooms Loft and Garage Conversions and much more! Free estimates given for all projects Family run business
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M Scott Joiner
Tel: 01773 856082
MARTIN SHIPMAN Plumbing & Heating
Boiler Breakdowns
• All aspects of Internal & External Joinery • Staircases • Windows & Doors • Flooring & Skirting • Kitchens • Decking
• Full Central Heating Systems • Bathrooms & Showers • All Aspects of Plumbing • NO VAT
Tel: 01773 602446 Mob: 07960 222298
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KITCHENS & BEDROOMS Due to expansion we are looking for a fitted kitchen & bedroom designer The ideal candidate will be experienced with knowledge of CAD/PC Excellent remuneration package on offer Please send your CV to: richard@holtams.co.uk or post to: Holtams Ltd., Random Ridge, Pickard Lane, Heage, DE56 2BD
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DKJ Ltd Sawmills Garage MONTHLY
from just £150.00 plus vat. Improve your vehicles performance and economy!
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‘FAMILY RUN BUSINESS’
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 689072 or 07971 530 069. A true family business for your motoring needs and Doorstep Milk Deliveries.
DKJ Ltd, Sawmills Garage, 27 Ripley Road, Sawmills, Nr Belper, DE56 2JQ
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Roadsters have played an important role in BMW's history and the all-new 2019 BMW Z4 is set to write another chapter in the open-top story. Since the birth of the first example, the famous BMW 328, all BMW roadsters have shared common proportions and design principles - long bonnet; low, set-back driving position, long wheelbase and short overhangs. The new BMW Z4 is no different. It shares all of those traditional principles, but takes the roadster experience to the next level with a focus on agility, dynamic performance and precise handling thanks to the high rigidity of the body structure and chassis mountings, the intelligent lightweight design and optimised aerodynamic properties.
THE NEW BMW Z4
The new Z4 M40i has a particularly sporty character with a Cerium Grey finish for the surround and front face of the mesh-design BMW kidney grille, the exterior mirror caps and other design features, plus trapezoidal exhaust tailpipes. The Z4 M40i features a straight-six unit with M Performance TwinPower Turbo technology. Its standout features include a water-cooled exhaust manifold integrated into the cylinder head, sharper turbocharger response and superior acceleration, and direct injection technology, which now works at increased maximum pressure of 350 bar. Drivers have a maximum output of 340hp at their disposal, plus 500Nm of peak torque. Very tasty indeed.
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