North October 2019

COUNTRY

North Edition - October 2019

Chris Tarrant

visits Alaska

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MATLOCK ILLUMINATIONS

Trams and Trains That Climb Mountains

IMAGES WALK SOUTH HEAD

How green is your kitchen?

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heralds the start of the run in to the back end of the year.

How depressing is that? However the changes can be absolutely beautiful as evening skies portray colours that we don’t get earlier in the year. Encompassing each season for its benefits and making the best of each opportunity is a must for us all.

The October editions of Country Images take us into the cosy side of our homes with a look at our flooring. This is a part of our home that really does take a beating over the years, and freshening our home up with new flooring, whether it be nice ‘toe comforting’ wool or the crisp feel of wood or laminate will add instant style.

There’s nothing more refreshing than a nice hot shower and our article features plenty of great ideas for this pivotal area of the home.

On the very north border of Derbyshire, Maxwell searches into the history of Greenhill Hall , whereas Brian is getting all steamed up about trains and trams.

Steve interviews Tara Fitzgerald, my favourite forensic scientist in Waking the Dead, and we venture away from Derbyshire with Chris Tarrant as he faces up to the bears in Alaska.

Autumn is a busy time in the garden and Mark gives us plenty of tips to get our gardens ready for the winter.

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The Great Orme tramway climbs the hill by a cable operated system from the North Wales coastal resort of Llandudno. It carries holidaymakers almost to the summit of the mountain.

Trams and That Climb

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nce the preserve of Oxbridge graduates, following the growth of prosperity and the expansion of railway travel during the reign of Queen Victoria, enjoying mountain scenery became open to anyone with the desire to explore the wilder regions of their countryside. Easy access from the industrial Midlands and North West saw hordes of visitors trekking each summer to north Wales’ seaside resorts where, after a short ride along one of the railways snaking up from the coast, they were able to gaze on the dramatic beauty of mountains surrounding Snowdon, the second highest point in the British Isles.

Attracted by the dramatic peaks towering above their heads, visitors began to explore the higher ground, but not all had the confidence to find their way in safety amongst the peaks and crags. Quick to grasp the opportunity of an easy income from guiding individuals and groups, shepherds cashed in on their intimate knowledge of the hills, with many turning it into a full-time occupation. Unfortunately some were not as knowledgeable as they thought, while others tried to turn a day amongst the peaks into something more like an alpine expedition; some even demanded the need to carry provisions more suited to a military expedition, even down to the provision of vast quantities of alcohol!

Trains Mountains

With serious hill climbing beyond the ability of the bulk of potential peak-baggers, many were tricked into attempting climbs that were frequently dangerous and life-threatening. It was with this in mind that the idea of a railway to the summit of Snowdon, the most popular mountain was put forward. The suggestion was far from new, trains had been climbing Swiss mountains for a decade or more, so the technology was there, it only needed capital and the encouragement of one or two entrepreneurs to get it off the ground in more ways than one.

The man who first had the idea of building a railway to the summit of Mount Snowdon was Sir Richard Moon, Chairman of the London and North Western Railway. In 1869 he came forward with a design using the Swiss ‘rack and pinion’ system where

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Snowdon

locomotives literally clawed their way up and down steep gradients. The cost to be borne by the LNWR was a staggering £63,800 (almost seven million pounds in today’s money). Naturally this did not meet with immediate approval, with the opposition led by a local landowner, George William Duff-Assheton-Smith, but seeing the potential he became one of the leading members of the Snowdon Mountain Company, with his wife Enid cutting the first sod in a track from Llanberis to the summit of Snowdon.

At that time the most popular footpath route to the top of Snowdon was from Portmadog by way of Snowdon Ranger on the mountain’s west flank and for a while building the line as a branch of the Portmadog/Carnarvon line had its backers. However, the northern route from Llanberis was chosen as the means of easing the local economy already suffering from the decline of the Welsh slate industry. Dug by men wielding picks and shovels helped by dynamite alone, working in whatever weather the mountain could throw at them, amazingly it only took fourteen months for the single-track line to reach the summit. The first commercial

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One of the diesel locos operating the line train ran in time for the summer rush of 6th April 1894. Reaching the summit in good order, unfortunately this journey ended in disaster on the way back down to Llanberis. Possibly due to overloading, locomotive No. 1 Ladas towing two coaches lost the track and ran out of control. The locomotive derailed on the

narrow col above Clogwyn Halt and fell into Cwm Glas Mawer on the Llanberis Pass. Amazingly only one passenger died, from loss of blood after jumping from the carriage. This luck continued when due to miscommunication a second downward train hit the carriages of the first, with no fatalities.

THE SYSTEM and its ROUTE TO THE SUMMIT The original plan was to use a two-rail system, relying purely on wheel friction for grip. Following the disaster of the first journey, it was decided to adopt the Swiss system and use the rack-andpinion method for both climbing and descending. A large cog beneath each locomotive was fixed to either side of a central point on the axle and alternately connects with each section of the toothed rack made in the shape of an inverted ‘L’ cross section. The cog alternately connects with individual sections of the rack and literally claws its way up and downhill.

Two sections of the line, at the top and bottom being relatively level, do not have a central rail and the boilers on steam locomotives slope downwards in order to keep them as level as possible. Although the majority of trains are pulled by steam engines, there are four diesel locos operating. Five halts are made on the way to the summit and its busy café. Not many passengers use them and their main purpose is to create passing places.

Reaching the topmost station it is a rare day when passengers can sunbathe beside the summit cairn built by Ordnance Surveyors; Snowdon has some of the wildest mountain weather in Britain.

Below the cairn and a few yards from the summit station platform, the welcoming café offers simple refreshment to shivering would-be mountaineers. The present café stands on the site of earlier attempts to provide hospitality. Originally all that was on offer was a cluster of crude wooden huts later followed by a 1930s structure which by the twenty-first century had become rather scruff y. The present building, Hafod Eryri (literally translated from the Welsh into English as ‘high mountain residence of Snowdonia’ was opened by First Minister Rhodri Morgan on the 12th June 2009 and cost a staggering £8.4 million. Strangely in a region sitting mostly on slate, stone used in constructing the building had to come from Spain.

Trains run to a daily schedule from mid-March to late October, weather permitting. Pre-booking is essential – phone 01286 870223. Single tickets up and down the mountain cannot be pre-booked and are only available on a stand-by basis. The journey takes about one hour each way.

Dogs except support dogs are not allowed on the trains. Children under 16 MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian whilst travelling on the railway.

The toothed rack between the rails.

Insert: The locomotive’s cog and drive wheels.

Model of the rack-and-pinion system

THE GREAT ORME TRAMWAY Not quite as dramatic as the Snowdonia mountain railway, the Great Orme tramway climbs the hill by a cable operated system from the North Wales coastal resort of Llandudno. It carries holidaymakers from just above the town centre, almost to the summit of the mountain. Here footpaths radiate in all directions, one especially to the selfguided remains of a copper mine first dug

by Bronze Age people.

Run as a commercial concern rather than a preserved line, the tramway uses electrically powered under-road cables to haul tramcars similar to the famous ones in San Francisco (and Matlock at one time); as one car descends the steep hill it helps the other to ascend, and half way up passengers have to alight and walk a few yards to another tramcar in order to complete the journey. As a convenient way to ascend the Great Orme it may leave something to be desired, but as a holiday novelty and an insight into Edwardian

engineering skill (it was opened in 1902), it is well worth the price of a ticket. The lower tram terminus, imposingly named Victoria Station is situated on Church Walks, at the western end of Mostyn Street, one of Llandudno’s main shopping facilities.

The Great Orme cable operated tramway runs on most days, weather permitting.

There is a small display near the top station, it covers the natural and political history of the mountain, including reference to its herd of wild goats that occasionally raid nearby gardens when conditions become difficult. There is also a café/restaurant close by and the copper mine is further downhill to the lower side of the tramway. And, we must not forget the tram that still climbs Snaefell, the highest point on the Isle of Man with its views of all four parts of the British Isles.

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Greenhill Hall, the entrance doorway, after Charles Ashmore 1910.

W

hen I write about Derbyshire, I do tend to stick to the historic borders of the County, the land of which has been eroded (and less generously replenished) ever since County Councils were first formed in 1888.

Although we have gained the Seals (Over and Nether) in the south and Fernilee to the north west, we lost all the ‘islands’ of Derbyshire that were once immured in Leicestershire: Measham, Ravenstone, Donisthorpe, Stretton-en-le-Field, Oakthorpe, Clifton Campville and Appleby Parva, not to mention Edingale, Chilcote and Croxall in Staffordshire. Since then, large settlements outside the county have hungrily seized parts of Derbyshire just to increase their rates income: Burton had Stapenhill and Winshill, for instance, and so in the same spirit, Sheffield gobbled up Beauchief and Norton, two of our most historic villages. They tried to get their hands on Dronfield, too, in 1974 but were successfully rebuffed!

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Right: Greenhill Hall, the east front from the farmyards, after Charles Ashmore, 1910.

Below: Samuel de Champlain (centre) surrendering Quebec to Admiral David Kirke, 20th July 1629.

Thus, I make no excuses for writing about Greenhill, a township (hamlet) of Norton, in which until 1965 stood a most venerable small manor house called Greenhill Hall.

Generally speaking, smaller manor houses which managed to survive the first three decades of the twentieth century have tended to enjoy relatively assured futures, but this has not been the case for those which have fallen within the destructive ambit of Sheffield City Council, as Norton did. Little Norton Hall, Norton Lees Hall and Norton House have all passed into oblivion.

Of these, Greenhill was the most important, although its listing was never higher than II. Although the exterior dated from the later sixteenth century, the house had a much earlier core. This became only too clear as the house was demolished, revealing a three bay timber framed great hall of fourteenth century date, only matched in Derbyshire by West Broughton Hall in Sudbury.

The Tudor exterior boasted a delightfully irregular gabled faรงade of coursed rubble of Grenoside sandstone from a local outcrop.

The Tudor arched door is flush with a gable to the left, whilst two others were to the right, each slightly advanced from the main faรงade and with fine six-light stone mullion and transom lead paned windows under short hood-moulds. The gables were straight and un-coped, with the usual array of diamond-set stacks above the stone slate roof. The SE front was ungabled, and much plainer, built in two stages, the NE part being fractionally lower than the portion adjacent to the main front, the whole being of four bays with a second (garden) door at bay three and with fenestration

all of three light mullions, the lower windows being noticeably deeper than those above and having similar short hood-moulds. The upper windows (or at least some of them) had flat mullions and surrounds instead of moulded ones, suggesting later alterations – perhaps the replacement of the original timber windows. It was within this that the substantial vestiges of the original timber framed house lurked.

Inside there was a beautiful ‘Sheffield School’ ribbed and rosetted plaster ceiling in the parlour, called the ‘Oak Room’ from its lavish period panelling, which indeed stretched to other parts of the house. Indeed, the Oak Room ceiling went to Cartledge Hall not so far away in Holmesfield and can still be admired.

There were also fine period over-mantels, one armorial. To the NW was a later, nineteenth century wing of no great pretension, but sufficient to make the house reasonably spacious and to afford an element into which modern (for the late 19th century!) plumbing could be inserted.

The earliest certain family to have a capital mansion on the site was the Mowers, also of Barlow Woodseats, William de Mora (as the name was originally spelt) being in possession in 1384. He was a tenant of the Abbey of Beauchief, nearby. A descendant left a daughter and heiress, Joan, of Newbold, who married James Bullock of Unstone in 1586 as his second wife. James was a local man, his father John, living on The Green at Greenhill but, despite the Mowers actually having long held a lease on Greenhill Hall, John had actually acquired the lease (of twenty one years) from the Abbey in their stead in 1533. However, the Dissolution of the Abbey came about within three years, and he promptly bought the freehold as well.

James Bullock’s father died in 1579 at a great age, and seems to have undertaken the first stone rebuilding in the 1560s. His son and heir, another James (1580-1632) inherited in 1598 and added the gabled front and also extended the SE side. On his death it passed to his son John and from him to another John, who died without issue in 1699.

The eldest three sons, David, Lewis and Thomas, led an expedition to Canada in

This Canadian enterprise was later referred to as the ‘First British colonisation of Canada’, but the advantage was let slip by the impecunious Charles I, who was obliged to hand Quebec back to France to pay off the outstanding amount of Queen Henrietta Maria’s jointure. Nevertheless, David and Lewis

were both knighted and the former allowed an augmentation to the family arms, in the shape of a canton bearing the arms of Admiral de Roquemont, who he had defeated at sea.

After the following generation of the Kirkes, all of whom died in London or ‘beyond the seas’ and their lease was surrendered to the last Bullock. The Froggatts, once they inherited, had no use for the place, and once again sold a lease upon it.

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1628, in which they were up against the wily French leader Samuel de Champlain, eventually wresting Quebec from him and David receiving a personal grant of Newfoundland from the King. His relations with de Champlain, though were formidably courteous, de Champlain calling him ‘Capt.

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Arms granted to Sir David Kirke, 1631.

This represents the marriage of Thomas Bullock, a younger brother of the last John Bullock of Greenhill, who in 1667 married a lady called Elizabeth and had by her a son, Thomas, baptised in Norton in 1669. By this date the Kirke’s tenancy must have been surrendered, and the couple would have been family tenants who took up residence there on their marriage.

William Armstrong in 1910 reported various rather nebulous ghost stories of the type that invariably used to attach to very old houses, including ‘Lupton’s Bull, a terrible animal…better remembered as a more tangible and

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Greenhill Hall, entrance front in decay 1960.

[National Monument Record] even more terrifying feature of the hall nearly eighty years ago.’ That is around 1830. This arose from the eventual sale of house and rather modest estate to the Yorkshire Luptons, the last of whom, John, seems to have been the owner of the notorious bull. His executors let the house to Capt. Charles Dawkins, and in the 1850s to Lupton’s son-in-law, William Lister (of another Yorkshire gentry family) who was agent to the Norton Hall estate and a surveyor, he built the additional wing and was succeeded by his unmarried daughters.

One wonders if the present life peer, Lord Lupton of Lovington, Hants., who in 1998 co-founded an investment bank,

is not perhaps a descendant, in view of the name he bestowed upon his firm: Greenhill Europe.

The Listers were succeeded by C. W. Crawshaw who sold to James Smith Andrew in 1900, who, Armstrong noted with satisfaction, ‘…is not aching to pull the old place down and build upon its site a commonplace modern mansion.’

He hopefully added: ‘May he and his successors continue to see that Greenhill Hall is more valuable than anything else that could be erected upon its site.’

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Middle: Greenhill Hall, garden front from a postcard.

Bottom: Greenhill Hall, garden front view in decay, c. 1960.

He should, of course have known better.

Mr. Andrew eventually sold to Mrs. Buxton, whose executors sold the house in 1948 to Sheffield Corporation. It was, needless to say, left quietly to decay and was eventually unceremoniously demolished in 1965 to make room for a vast housing development.

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Every Saturday during the Illuminations in 2019 includes a fireworks finale (as does the final night on Sunday 27 October), with numbers in the Derwent Gardens restricted to a maximum of 6,000 - down from 8,000, the maximum in 2016 and previous years - to improve crowd movement and enjoyment for visitors.

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ometimes I receive a number of emails almost asking more or less the same question and this month is no exception.

Hedging, I’ve tried to condense the answer I give, but it’s a huge subject which is difficult to advise in a few paragraphs especially when there’s slight variations. Towards the end of this month is the ideal time to plant, you may find hedging plants in garden centres later this month.

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). Then decide if this hedge needs to be evergreen (keeps its 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 an informal hedge (clipped once or twice a year). Then lastly the ultimate height of the hedge.

Suitable 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.

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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preserving them in olive oil to make chilli oil. · Check heaters are working efficiently and buy fuel. · Sow pots of hardy winter lettuces.

General garden maintenance: · Spike compacted lawns and brush sand and sulphate of iron into the holes to improve drainage, this also greens up, kills and prevents 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 using holly as a decoration, throw a net over branches to protect them 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 to provide winter protection.

Plants looking fantastic this month: Nandina domestica ‘obsessed’ (heavenly bamboo or sacred bamboo) Although it is known as heavenly bamboo it is 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. It 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.

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 fruits from last year are turning red. The tree gets its 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.

Pyracantha (firethorn) I have weeded a few of these in my life time and I know now why it is 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.

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Tara Fitzgerald

Tara admits she always gets nervous: “It’s always been the same as far back as I can remember.

Excitement and the desire for something to be good are the drivers and inevitably make me nervous. As long as I stay nervous I’m fine. Anxiety isn’t welcome”

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he’s recognisable for her roles on the big screen in Brassed Off and on television in Waking The Dead and Game Of Thrones.

Now Tara Fitzgerald is teaming up with Derbyshire-born actor Robert Lindsay for one of the theatrical highlights of the year which is coming to Nottingham.

Lindsay is reprising the part of Jack Cardiff, “the man who made women beautiful”, in Terry Johnson’s play Prism. Tara plays two roles, Cardiff ’s wife Nicola as well as Katharine Hepburn, the Hollywood star who worked with the legendary director and cinematographer. The play features Cardiff who is suffering from dementia looking back over his life and the films he’s made.

When I spoke to Tara during the early stages of rehearsals for Prism, she was still examining her two characters and how they fit into the play. But she was quick to praise playwright Terry Johnson who also directs Prism.

Robert Lindsay

Tara says it’s a “real pleasure” to be working with Lindsay

Her deep voice is mellifluous as well as unmistakeable “Terry’s writing is fantastic and very exciting to work with. It has a sort of visceral quality and it’s funny, as Terry’s work often is. If we do it right it will also have real pathos. But Terry never becomes sentimental. He’s a very fine wordsmith.” Tara whose deep voice is mellifluous as well as unmistakeable says she is already loving the play: “It’s a real treat to be able to play two characters. Terry’s writing is so beautiful you want to honour it.”

She is also relishing the opportunity to team up with Robert Lindsay again. They both appeared in the Terence Rattigan play In Praise Of Love at the Theatre Royal, Bath last year. It was directed by Jonathan Church, formerly associate director at Derby Playhouse and assistant director of Nottingham Playhouse in the 1990s.

Tara says it’s a “real pleasure” to be working with Lindsay.

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Tara Anne Cassandra Fitzgerald was born on 18 September 1967 in Cuckfield, Sussex. She came to international attention in 1993 when she starred with Hugh Grant in the Australian comedy Sirens. She appeared in a stream of independent films during the 1990s, most famously Brassed Off in 1996 alongside the late Pete Postlethwaite. She played Gloria Mullins, a young woman working for British Coal who’s sent to her home town of Grimley to determine the profitability of its pit.

“People talk about it as being one of their favourite films,” remarks Tara. “It still has so much relevance, as I suppose the best pieces of art do. Everyone believed in it. It wears its heart on its sleeve, so it chimes with people.”

The previous year Tara had won the New York Critics’ Circle best supporting actress award for her role as Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet opposite Ralph Fiennes.

On television she appeared in 32 episodes of the BBC1 series Waking The Dead as forensic scientist Eve Lockhart and also in the spin-off drama The Body Farm. If you’re a fan of the TV fantasy drama series Game Of Thrones you won’t need me to tell you that Tara played Queen Selyse Baratheon, wife of the Lord of Dragonstone and claimant to the Iron Throne. The character killed her daughter before hanging herself.

Tara considers herself lucky to be able to move between the different media of theatre, film and television. She found Game Of Thrones to be “phenomenal” because she was a fan of the series when she got the role.

“I was just over the moon. There was such talent everywhere you looked, both the cast and crew. It was a

Tara Fitzgerald, as Lady Macbeth and Ray Fearson as Macbeth in Iqbal Khan’s Macbeth.

Photograph by Marc Brenner.

great thing to be part of and something I can feel so proud of. Even if you haven’t seen Games Of Thrones you know it. And you know culturally the impact it’s had globally.

This sounds a bit grandiose but I think it was the start of a television revolution.”

There’s also been a revolution in theatre, with actors being cast in roles no matter what their gender, race or age.

Tara feels she has benefited from this change. “It feels like people are just much more open-minded. It’s a time of reinvention. People are looking at projects with fresh eyes, which is great.

“There’s just been this zeitgeist,” observes Tara, an intellectual who thinks carefully about everything she says. “The change has been so swift and so huge. But I still miss in film – not so much on TV – representation of women of a certain age, women who are my age basically.”

Tara has recently been working on a major ITV period drama, Belgravia, written by Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes. “That had the most wonderful roles for older women who are the drivers of the story.”

Lady Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe Tara had at one point become frustrated at a lack of interesting roles for mature actresses and had started to direct. Yet she has had a range of major parts in the past few years including playing Lady Macbeth at Shakespeare’s Globe and Bella Manningham in Patrick Hamilton’s Victorian chiller Gaslight in Northampton.

She found acting at the open-air Globe in London “extraordinary” because “the main house isn’t like anywhere else. For me it was a big learning curve, the immediacy of the space and the interaction that you inevitably have with the audience. “Usually when I go out onto a stage there’s some sort of a wall. They call it the fourth wall. And so you’re enclosed in your make-believe land. At the Globe you’re not. You come out on stage and you can see every face in the house. People are very active and alive and going about their business. “That was very different and it became something that I really enjoyed.

But I had to learn that because I hadn’t experienced it before. It felt like a very exciting time.”

Directing is something she wants to pursue in the future. She recently won an award for her second short film, a modern-day psychological horror story Nothing Important, which was declared best narrative at the New Renaissance Film Festival. Next year she’s hoping to get her first feature film, Amsterdam, completed: “It’s a long process and again things have changed very much because cinemas’ patronage has altered quite a lot.

“Big companies like Netflix come in and you have

simultaneous releases and streaming. It’s all changing.

I think everyone now is beginning to get their heads around what that means and then to utilise those possibilities.”

No matter how much work she gets, Tara admits she always gets nervous: “It’s always been the same as far back as I can remember. Excitement and the desire for something to be good are the drivers and inevitably make me nervous. As long as I stay nervous I’m fine. Anxiety isn’t welcome. You’ve just got to keep re-examining things and keep on trying to unearth inspiration.”

After the tour of Prism finishes at the end of November, Tara doesn’t know what she’ll be doing. “There are other theatre things that might come to fruition next year but I’m not committed to anything once this run ends. I like not knowing. I’ve been so fortunate and I’m aware that I’m lucky in being able to work.”

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PUBLIC TRANSPORT: High Peak 190 Buxton/Whaley Bridge service via Chinley.

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CAR PARKING: Roadside on the New Smithy access road beyond the A624, Chapel-en-le-Frith to Glossop road (aka the Hayfield Road).

REFRESHMENTS: The village pub, the Crown and Mitre, is no more, having been converted into apartments. The nearest pubs are in Chinley, about three quarters of a mile away from New Smithy.

THE WALK 1. Follow the winding lane going left, away from the A624 for about a quarter of a mile.

2. Where the lane makes a sharp right-hand turn, go to the left at the ‘No Through Road’ sign and follow the walled farm lane steadily uphill.

At the top of the first rise there is a ‘surprise view’ ahead, towards the sharp peak of South Head, the crux of the walk. To its left can be seen the more rounded outline of Mount Famine. Left again across the valley is rugged Cracken Edge, the quarried eastern escarpment of Chinley Churn.

Looking down the valley, we see the outskirts of Chinley and New Mills, dominated by the attractive summit of Eccles Pike. Further left again and almost completing the circle is the flat top of Combs Moss.

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his walk follows bridleways and ancient pack-horse trails below the shapely summit of South Head.

It is one of the few summits that look anything like what can be considered a peak in a region taking its name from sharply pointed hills, without actually having many coming within that category. As most of the tracks are defined by stone walls, they make this high-level walk safe to follow in all but the most inclement weather conditions.

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3. Go to the left of Bennett Barn Farm and down to a little stream. Cross and then climb the walled muddy path up to Andrews Farm. Keeping to the right of the farm, follow its access lane until it turns left. Leave the lane at this point by going slightly to your right along a walled grassy track.

4. At a complex track junction, go through the third gate on your right to climb along a rough cart track.

Where the track turns sharply left while crossing a stream, continue ahead and climb over the stile next to a narrow gate. Climb steeply up the part-walled grassy path.

Pause for a rest at the top of the rise along the way beyond Andrews Farm. Look back towards the broad headwaters of the Goyt Valley about ten miles away. To their left is Combs Moss, and moving right are the heather moors surrounding the Cat and Fiddle Inn at the highest point

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be found along lanes leading away from the Hayfield road at New Smithy, a settlement near Chinley. The hamlet is reached away from the A624, Chapel-en-le-Frith to Glossop road immediately north of the railway bridge.

If we want to give this walk a sub-title, then it must be ‘A walk with many views’. Throughout the walk I have indicated various viewpoints and tried to point out most of the features seen across miles of Peakland hills and valleys.

of the A537, Buxton to Macclesfield road. Shining Tor, the highest point on the far horizon, points to the long western ridge above the Goyt Valley.

5. At the top of the slope, go over a stile and turn right. Go through a gate to follow a path across a broad, grassy saddle and around the northern shoulder of South Head.

As you pass round the back of South Head, you are looking across the upper section of the Sett Valley to lands owned by the National Trust.

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7. Follow this track, an ancient packhorse way steadily downhill for about 1½miles.

As you descend the track, look south (i.e. the way you are going) into the northern limits of the White Peak. The dominant plume of smoke rising in the middle distance is from limeworks and roadstone quarries surrounding Buxton. The contrast between the topography of the White and Dark Peaks is noticeable from here; in the south the limestone uplands of the White Peak are flat-topped and carved with deep valleys which are hidden from view at this point. The Dark Peak by contrast is more rugged.

Cattle graze the sweet, lush, upland pastures of the White Peak, but they are restricted to the valleys of the Dark Peak, and only limited numbers of sheep can find sustenance on the poor grasses of the lower moors.

Grouse are the only commercially viable inhabitants of the heather moors.

Ferodo make brake and clutch linings, an industry which began when the founder noticed that carters improved the efficiency of their brakes by wedging a clog or shoe between the simple brake block and the cart’s wheels when descending the steep Peakland hills.

10. In the final stages of the walk, go past a cluster of cottages and then turn right along the road for about 100 yards (90m).

11. Turn left at the right-hand of a pair of gates and go to the right around the back of a large house. Go through a gate and turn right along a field path. Follow the boundary wall downhill. Go over a stile and along a narrow path to reach the side road.

The inn and main road are to your left.

Mt. Famine

8. Where the track widens on the descent, go through the right-hand of a pair of gates, moving steadily downhill along a field track above the deep, partly wooded valley.

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9. Reaching Shireoaks Farm, bear right at the farmyard and out along its access track, at first downhill, then more level.

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Diary of Events diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk OCT 1-5 Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet 2 Aled Jones & Russell Watson 5 Josh Widdicombe: Bit Much...

6 Classical Music Sunday Piano Series: Ji Liu 7 An Evening with Harry Redknapp 8 Luther Vandross: A Celebration 8 - 9 Dada Masilo: Giselle 9-10 Eddie Izzard: Wunderbar 10-13 The Gruffalo - Live On Stage 10 Dale Storr: The Sound of New Orleans 11 Sing ON Nottingham 11Jonathan Pie: The Fake News Tour 11Frank Skinner: Showbiz 12-13 UKBFF British Championships 2019 12 LOL Comedy Club 14 Hancock & Co 15 The Hallé 15-19 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 15 After Hours: Abstruckt Ensemble 18 Rip It Up the 70’s 19 Fastlove: A Tribute To George Michael 20 The Next Step 21 Roy Orbison & Buddy Holly 21-26 Prism 22 Heritage Talk - Theatre During WWII 22 Will Young 23-24 Tim Minchin: BACK 27 You Win Again - Celebrating the Bee Gees 28 Solve-Along-A Murder, She Wrote 28 Van Morrison 28 The Songs Of Barry White 29 80’s Invasion Tour 29 to Nov 2The Sound of Music 30 An Audience with Simon Reeve 31 Shakespears Sister NOV 1 The Magic Lantern Family Backstage Tour 1 Classical Music Sinfonia Viva 3 Marillion with Friends from the Orchestra 4 Secrets of the Bluestockings 5-7 Opera North: La Bohème 6 Opera North: Giulio Cesare 6-8 Rob Beckett: Wallop 7 Adam Ant: Friend or Foe Tour 9 Opera North: The Greek Passion 9 Squeeze 10 Sunday Piano Series: Anna Tsybuleva 10 Russell Kane: The Fast and The Curious 12 James Morrison Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre.

01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org OCT 2 Lulu - On Fire 3 The Dreamboys 4 Carnelian Saxophone Quartet 4 Josh Widdicombe 7 The Ballroom Boys - Ian Waite & Vincent Simone 8 Jimmy Carr 9 Rhod Gilbert

10 Sofie Hagen 11-17 Downton Abbey - the movie 11 The Seraglio 12 English Touring Opera - The Silver Lake - A Winter’s Tale (Der Silbersee) 12 Clare Teal and her Trio 13 James Seabright - Sinatra: Raw 16 Lloyd Cole 17 Austentatious - The Improvised Jane Austen Buxton International Festival 18 Jonathan Rugman The Killing in the Consulate 18 The Ruskin Debate La Voix Humaine with Dame Felicity Lott (soprano) and Adrian Kelly (piano) 18 Roy Orbison -Traveling Wilburys Experience 19 D J Taylor - The Lost Girls Love, War and Literature: 1939-51 19 Sacconi Quartet 19 Windrush with Amelia Gentleman & Colin Grant 19 Pam Ayres - Up in the Attic 19 Tim FitzHigham and Duncan Walsh Atkins perform Flanders and Swann 20 Jazz Lunch with The Easy Rollers 23 Russian State Ballet and Opera House Don Quixote Music by Ludwig Minkus 25 Anything For Love - The Meat Loaf Story 25 Buddy Holly & The Cricketers 26 The Pitmen Poets 26 That’ll Be The Day 28 Tabby McTat 31 Mini Makers - Mask Making NOV 1 Royal Northern College of Music Larisa Piano Trio Coffee Concert 2-7 Abominable 2 Crooners 2 Justin Moorhouse 4-9 Fame The Musical 9 The Legends of American Country 10 Northern Chamber Orchestra with Tracey Redfern (trumpet) 11 The Simon and Garfunkel Story 50th Anniversary Tour Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk OCT Derby Folk Weekender 4-6 4 Featuring - Rachael McShane & The Cartographers and The Urban Folk Quartet 5 Featuring - Kongero, Moirai, Sam Kelly & Ruth Notman, Kitty Macfarlane, Bob Fox + Katie Spencer, Kongero with Barry Coope, De Temps Antan 6 Featuring Fungus Foray, Andy Irvine + Luke Jackson, The Willows 10-12 A Chorus of Disapproval 12 Sergei Podobedov 16-19 A View from the Bridge 17 What’s Love Got to Do with It? 18 Michael - Starring Ben 19 Derby Vegan Market

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19 Spice World Movie Night 22-26 My Fair Lady 23 Mozart’s Symphony No 40 24 CSI Whodunnit: Burglary in the Library!

26 Create a Comic 26 GP Timing & National Madison 2019 27 National Omnium 2019 28 to Nov 2 Toy Workshop. What makes a perfect toy? How does it become a favourite? Is there one toy that makes you smile?

NOV 1 Carry On Screaming It’s Murder!

Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk OCT 3-5 Barnum 22 to 26 Two Trains Running There’s a controversial new president in the White House, and racial tensions are on the rise. It is Pittsburgh, 1969, and the regulars of Memphis Lee’s restaurant are struggling to cope with the turbulence of a rapidly changing world. The diner is in threat of being torn down, a casualty of the city’s renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. The iconic American playwright August Wilson paints a vivid portrait of everyday lives in this defining moment of American history.

Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk OCT 4 Count Arthur Strong 5 A Midsummer Night’s Dream - hilarious combination of a Shakespearian classic 6 Wireless Wise - a celebration of BBC Radio 4 7 Open Door Ignite 8 Five Years 8 Rush 9 Trade 10 Candoco Double Bill 26 Assasins Created by Stephen Sondheim. A man sits in a storeroom on the sixth floor of a Book Depository in Texas in 1963, waiting for John F Kennedy’s motorcade to pass below.

Asatirical and stylish look at why individuals reach for a gun when they feel their voice can’t be heard.

Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre 6 The Cher Songbook 7 Private Peaceful (Age 8+) 8 Joe Brown - 60th Anniversary Tour 10 Thank You For The Music 12 King of Pop - The Legend Continues 13 Rock and Roll Revolution 15 Respect - The Aretha Franklin Songbook 16 Faith - The George Michael Legacy 17 Mercury - Queen The Legend Lives 19 Barry Steele & Friends - The Roy Orbison Story

Rhod Gilbert. The Book of John Buxton Opera House Wednesday 9 October, 8:00pm

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The Hallé

Royal Centre Nottingham Tuesday 15 October, 7:30pm

Nottingham welcomes Canadian musical royalty when virtuoso violinist James Ehnes makes his debut in the city.

Armed with dazzling technique and breathtaking lyricism, he received the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society Instrumentalist Award in 2017. For his first visit he’ll be playing Bruch’s romantic First Violin Concerto, whose blend of high drama and soaring expression have made it a mainstay of concert halls worldwide. Bruch’s masterpiece is bookended by two classic English works, both premiered by the Hallé, and a perfect fit for the orchestra’s partnership with Sir Mark Elder. Gerald Finzi’s The Fall of the Leaf was inspired by a piece in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and displays the wistfulness that tinges his pastoral soundworld.

Elgar’s First Symphony shares some of Finzi’s poignancy, but its majestic sweep also projects the confidence of the Edwardian age and a composer at the height of his powers.

Its dedicatee, the Hallé’s conductor Hans Richter, proclaimed it ‘the greatest symphony of modern times’.

Blood Brothers

Derby Theatre Monday 14 October Saturday 19 October

Written by Willy Russell, the legendary Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences. Few musicals have received quite such acclaim as the multi-award winning Blood Brothers.

Bill Kenwright’s production surpassed 10,000 performances in London’s West End, one of only three musicals ever to achieve that milestone.

Derby Folk Festival

October 4 Friday - 5 Saturday 6 Sunday

Top names from the folk scene in the heart of the City.

Bob Fox - Andy Irvine - Racheal Mcshane & The Cartographers - Urban Folk Quartet - Kongero - Sam Kelly & Ruth Notman - De Temps Antan - The Willows - Winter : Wilson - Luke Jackson plus many more guests including Traditional Dance Teams Box Office 01332 255800. For information go to www.derbyfolkfestival.co.uk

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Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

As autumn approaches we’ll see the passage of waders as they head to their wintering sites, ducks and geese return from their summer breeding grounds and hopefully, the return of the great Northern Diver. Why not join us on one of our free Beginners walks held on the first Sunday of every month? Booking is advisable as numbers are limited, contact Carsington 0330 678 0701. Future dates are, Oct 6th, Nov 3rd and Dec 1.

Arts Society Derby The Arts Society Derby meets at 7.15 pm usually on the first Tuesday of every month apart from July, August and September, at Landau Forte College, Fox St, Derby DE1 2LF. The next meeting is on November 5th 2019 when the speaker will be Sarah Dunant, with a talk entitled ‘The Most Infamous Family in History: The Borgias’. New members of the society are warmly welcomed; for details see https://theartssocietyderby.com/membership/ or phone 01332 751574. Non-members may attend as guests for a charge of £5 per person.

Folk And Acoustic Music So come and join us if you can. Loads of parking in Field Lane Car Park DE56 1DD. Heanor Floral Art Group Monday October 21st flower demonstration

by Jean Fordham of Newthorpe Notts entitled Button Box. Time 7oclock. Venue The Wilmot Street Welfare Centre, Wilmot Street, Heanor.

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

Spondon Historical Society Monday, October 14th at 7.30pm in Spondon Village Hall, Sitwell St., Spondon DE21 7FG. The speaker will be Dr. Ann Featherstone who will relate to us about a ‘Storm in a Teacup’. All are welcome, visitors £4 and members £2.50.

Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 25 October ‘Birding in the USA’ by Malcolm Hopton All meetings start at 7pm and are held in Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard off New Road, Darley Abbey, DE22 1DS There is a charge of £1.50. Contact Maria Gibson on 01332 552837: darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup.wordpress.com/ Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 15th October 2019 Flower Demonstration by Sandra Meakin Entitled: “Déjà Vu”. Time: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree.

Members £3.00. Non- members £7.00 For further details telephone 01332 558540 New Season at Music at Duffield Bemrose Bursary Recital. Maxim Kinasov (Piano) 5 October 2019 at 7.30pm. St.

Alkmund’s Church, Church Drive (off Makeney Road), Duffield DE56 4BA Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 in E major, Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Rachmaninoff Etudes-tableaux Slonimsky Intermezzo in Memory of Brahms.

Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Prokofiev Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major.

Maxim Kinasov made his concerto debut in Moscow at the age of nine and his solo recital debut a year later. He is an award-winning solo and chamber musician and performs a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Shostakovich.

Maxim Kinasov appears by kind permission of the RNCM. Ticket prices: Adult £15, Concession £14, Student £7. Individual tickets available at the door or from Caroline Morgan 07977 091171. www.musicatduffield.com Website www.musicatduffield.com Derby Chamber Music Society Friday 11th October at 7.30pm at the MultiFaith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB A concert by Ning Kam (violin) and Katherine Jenkinson (cello).

Mozart: Duo in G, K.423. Sollima: ‘Alone’ for Cello Solo. Bach: Adagio and Fugue from Sonata No.1 in G minor for Solo Violin.

Martinu: Duo No.1 for Violin and Cello.

Ravel: Sonata for Violin and Cello in C major Servais/Ghys: Variations brillantes sur l’air ‘God Save the King’ Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) available at the door and online through WeGotTtickets at www.derbychambermusic.org or telephone 01332 830585 Little Chester Heritage Centre Little Chester Heritage Centre, St. Paul’s Church, Mansfield Road, Derby. On Sunday October 6th, 2-4 p.m. we invite you to have a final inspection of our Arthur Barlow memorabilia. Free. We are then closed until April 2020. We would like to thank all those who have helped and supported us during 2019 and we hope that you found our exhibitions/ talks interesting and informative. Tel. 01332 363354.

Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club 5th. October - our guest this month is Scrollsaw artist Gianni Deidda. There will be a demonstration of approximately two hours followed by a workshop for those people who are interested in “having a go”. 2nd. November - this is a hands-on meeting. Come along and try a new craft. First visit and refreshments are free. Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club meets in Wyaston village hall (DE6 2DR) on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 2:00pm.For more information go to www.ddwc.co.uk 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.

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Derby RSPB Local Group Indoor Meeting on Wednesday 9 October, which begins at 7pm with our AGM followed

by Mark Sisson with a talk entitled “From Alaska to Argentina”, the wildlife of the Americas. Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.50, for nonmembers £3.00 and juniors £1.00. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby. Also, Sunday 20 October for a free birdwatching walk at RSPB Langford Lowfields Nottinghamshire.

Meet at 9.30am in the car park in Cottage Lane (GR SK821601). This flagship reserve showcases wetland habitat creation on a large scale. No facilities. This walk should finish at about 12.30pm. More details on the RSPB Derby local group website www.rspb.org.uk/groups/deryb Mountain Music at Crich Glebe Field Centre (DE4 5EU) Little Bulb Theatre in collaboration with Farnham Maltings 16th November - 7:30 pm

Mountain Music takes us on a theatrical journey from ancient Celtic folk, to modern American country music. Join award-winning theatre makers Little Bulb for an enchanting evening of storytelling and song. When pioneers from the British Isles settled in the Appalachian Mountains they brought with them, in their invisible baggage, songs from “the old country”. In this show, award winning Little Bulb Theatre weaves a gorgeous tapestry of culture, migration and history, exploring the roots of what we now call country music, and its impact on popular music today. Told in sumptuous three-part harmonies, and featuring fiddle, bass, guitar, banjo and mandolin, we’re in for a theatrical feast of tales and songs.

Mountain Music is filled with humour and sadness and is a performance that will touch, startle and entertain.

Boundlessly enthusiastic, insanely optimistic and inexpressibly charming – The Guardian on Little Bulb. The brand new show ‘Mountain Music’ has been made especially for village halls, and tickets are on sale now!

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Alaska‌ Martin J Founds

of Martins World Travel and fellow adventurer

Chris Tarrant

explore the stunning setting of Lake Clark in southwest Alaska

Martin:

For pure wilderness, amazing wildlife and stunning scenery nowhere on earth quite beats Alaska. A great transport system (air, road and rail) interesting towns with character and history make exploration from the city of Anchorage so easy.

My business is travel and development, my hobbies are fishing, photography and filming. Alaska combines all these perfectly.

After numerous visits I accompanied my fishing friend and fellow adventurer Chris Tarrant to the stunning setting of Lake Clark in southwest Alaska. Our remote but quite luxurious accommodation, Silver Salmon Creek Lodge, could only be accessed by light aircraft using the beach as a landing strip. No roads here!

The lodge is owned by the family that built it, the Corays, and David, Joanne and Oliver Coray run a very professional operation.

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that this was the bears territory, and humans were tolerated guests, a strange and unique situation developed. Guests and bears get along just great as long as certain protocols are adhered to. The lodge staff view this as the bears domain and we are their invited guests. They are never offered food and if we are fishing we always stop and move out to let the bears fish their way. Respect is the keyword. Young and adolescent bears tend to be the most inquisitive. It is critical that you never panic, turn your back or try to run from these bears as your guides will explain.

When I mentioned this unique location to Chris he immediately agreed to join me on what was to be one of the most exciting of my Alaskan visits‌

Chris

Coho, The Silver Salmon which although not so big, are still a tremendous sporting fish and late in the summer the rivers of Alaska are full of them.

The first afternoon we spent walking the fishery with Polaroid glasses

one of the World’s Last Frontiers

and the first creature we saw was breath-taking, it was just enormous it was about ten foot in length with a really thick girth, and a massive back, it wasn’t the Coho to end all Cohoes… this was my first ever encounter with an Alaskan coastal brown bear.

It came wandering out of the woods and walked slowly along the riverbank, directly towards us. My guide, Eric had said “Whatever you do, don’t run, just move back very quietly give him space and he will totally ignore you.” Very difficult advice to follow, as I’m sure you’ll agree, my instinct was to run like hell or climb up the nearest tree and scream for my mummy but bears love climbing trees and can also run surprisingly fast (like 30 mph fast!) So, I had to resort to the “move back and give him space” technique. To my relief and amazement it actually worked, and it kept on working throughout our incredible week.

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with a lot of bears, in fact in the end I became far more interested in watching the bears than catching any more salmon.

We watched one very large female bear with three cubs feast on 5 or 6 salmon in a couple of hours, before we went back to an enormous breakfast ourselves. Sometimes a female seemed to leave cubs close to us while she went fishing, I couldn’t get my head around this behaviour at all. But Martin explained that she felt safer leaving the cubs with us rather than risk a big male finding them unattended for the big males would undoubtedly kill and eat any cubs they found.

Some of the behaviour patterns were just fascinating to witness at such close quarters… we often had an adult bear within five feet of us and after the first day of sheer terror I became as relaxed with them as they were with us. It was magical.

It was a wonderful trip, one day Eric, our excellent young guide, Martin and I went up by canoe to the top of the river, where it flows out of a big lake, this was the main spawning area, and although the fish weren’t in the lake yet, they were pouring into the top pool just below it. We had tremendous sport catching Coho salmon after salmon, at the foot of the snowcapped mountains with three bald eagles soaring in the 70 | www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk

blue skies overhead... at one point a peregrine falcon flew so low over the river I could almost touch it with my rod. We paused several times to let big bears quietly make their right of way along the river in front of us.

One huge bear came up to within a very few feet of where I was standing sniffed at me and moved slowly away. It was very close. To show you how close I even got some decent big close ups on my phone! Now that’s got to be close‌ Chris Tarrant.

Anyone with an interest in photography or just nature viewing will be amazed at just how varied and close to nature you can be. Experienced guides are always at your side and they have a deep interest and understanding of their surroundings. These hugely powerful bears at Silver Salmon Creek have a huge natural food supply and being omnivores feed on the lush sedge and grasses in spring and early summer before moving on to many types of berries. The vast shoals of food rich Pacific Salmon arrive midsummer and enable these well fed bears to fatten up for winter.

At low tide some bears smell out and dig up razor clams which are a great delicacy to these bears. Humans in this part of Alaska therefore do not feature on their menu.

We are nothing more than a seagull or a rock to them.

They are extremely intelligent and naturally inquisitive.

It is therefore essential these bears do not associate us with food. We give them space and it is the bear that decides how close it is comfortable to us. There are occasions when they are almost too comfortable and may take an interest in one’s camera bag etc. The guide will ask us to back up a few feet and may talk to the bear in a calm but firm voice. That is all it takes to ensure mutual respect.

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We caught an enormous number of salmon, all bright silver, fresh from the sea It should be stressed that this is a unique location and experience.

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journey to the far northwest so worthwhile. We have visited remote camps on Kodiak Island, hired a car and visited the scenic Kenai Peninsular, numerous glaciers, the coastal towns of Seward and Homer in addition to the historic former frontier town of Talkeetna, gateway to Mount Denali and with a few hours drive of spectacular Denali National Park (busy in July/August but much quieter in May, June and September).

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Recipe: Halloumi Kebabs with Couscous Salad Ingredients 3 tbsp of olive oil

Zest and juice of 2 lemons Salt and pepper

Finely chopped oregano, rosemary and mint

250g couscous, cooked and cooled

2 x 250g halloumi cheese, cut into cubes

400g of green puy lentils 50g lightly toasted cashew nuts

250g of ready to eat dried apricots, or fresh apricot halves

Wooden skewers (soak these in water for at least 30 minutes before using to prevent the burning)

250g of stoned dates

Method: 1. Pour the oil into a large bowl. Add the finely chopped oregano, mint and rosemary to the bowl.

2. Add the cubes of halloumi, the apricots, dates and the zest and juice of 1 lemon to the bowl. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and turn gently in the oil and herb mix.

3. Thread the halloumi, apricots and dates alternately onto the skewers – continue until all the ingredients are used making sure that the skewers are not too long for the pan you are using. Put the marinade to one side.

4. Heat a large frying pan over a high heat and add the kebabs; turn until each side of the halloumi cheese is golden and the fruit begins to caramelise. Drizzle the remaining marinade over the kebabs and cook for a further 2 or 3 minutes 5. Fork the cooled couscous to make it light and fine, add the cool, cooked puy lentils, toasted cashew nuts and the remaining lemon juice and zest then mix. Add any remaining chopped herbs, season and serve alongside the kebabs.

6. Serve the couscous salad

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How green is your kitchen?

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he pine worktops may give off the clean scent of zesty lemon but the kitchen of Taste Derbyshire’s Amanda Volley contains a dirty little secret. Each week she is putting three bags of non-recyclable packaging into her wheelie bin.

Desperate to clean-up her act, she reached out to Sue MacFarlane who runs a low impact shop in Belper.

Inside Sue’s shop. Some of the glass jars of herbs, nuts, pasta, pulses, seeds and dried fruits.

A week before meeting with Belper’s Sue MacFarlane, a woman at the forefront of the battle against single use plastic, I saved all the food packaging which normally gets pushed into the deepest recesses of my 30-litre touch top bin. I might recycle seven wine bottles a week, use tatty tote bags for shopping and my old fridge was removed by the council rather than dumped on a country lane, but the shameful amount of non-biodegradable plastic in my bin bags proved two things; 1. I am no friend of the earth.

2. I have a serious crisp addiction.

Amanda Volley’s three bags of non-recyclable packaging.

Fortunately, Sue MacFarlane (58), is happy to act as fairy-godmother to the eco-curious.

People who want a greener home but are not ready to exchange loo paper for a family cloth (it’s a thing – Google it). Instead of slapping you across the knuckles with a bamboo dish brush, she guides you gently towards greener habits.

Sue runs regular workshops for people who want to cut down on their plastic. A year ago, she launched Sue’s Sustainables – a scoop shop where you can buy loose food for your evening meal and refill on eco-friendly washing-up liquid for the dirty plates afterwards.

Eco-friendly washing-up liquid and fabric conditioner.

“Getting started on the sustainable journey can be daunting,” Sue says when I tell her about the pile of plastic waste my two-person household produces in one week. “People are often made to feel they are at fault for all the environmental problems and, if it’s getting worse, it’s because individuals aren’t

doing enough. Big businesses are very skilled at putting responsibility on consumers for something they didn’t create.” Then she looks at a picture of my rubbish; “Oh wow – that is a lot,” she laughs. “I think you’re at the start of the journey towards a low impact life.”

Sue’s own journey began in 2013 when she and husband Will (63), moved to Belper to pursue a simpler life. “Working for a bank in Sheffield, I saw at first hand the waste that goes on a corporate level – like being asked to fly across the country for a business meeting.

When the bank restructured, I decided I didn’t want to be part of that world anymore” she explains. “When Will and I moved back to Belper (the couple had previously lived there from 1997-2004) it was a ‘wow’ moment as the town was more vibrant with lots going on in the community. I became the chair of ‘Sharing not wasting’ which redistributes food not wanted by supermarkets.

In addition to her Green Party commitments, Sue began work as a part-time singing teacher (she is a Natural Voice Practitioner who believes everyone – regardless of talent – should be encouraged to sing) and as a celebrant. She also found time to offer free advice to people who wanted to reduce their own plastic consumption. “I’ve been interested in the environment and ecology all my life,” Sue explains. “In 2017, I decided to look for plastic-free alternatives to everything I was still using in the home and started sharing my tips on-line. The one which really

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got people talking was finding out that some tea bags contain plastic.”

For Sue, a lot of her personal changes meant embracing thrifty habits of the past; “My late my mum Janice was part of the war generation and it was natural for her to re-use things instead of throwing them away, making and mending clothes and never wasting food,” she says.

“I can recall her buying the pretty margarine tubs so she could use them as containers afterwards.”

Sue became so well-known for her friendly tips; a regional TV news channel did a piece about her low impact life and even followed her to the local chippie where she was filmed getting a glass jar filled with mushy peas. But it was never Sue’s intention to launch an eco-business; “It came about in July 2017 when I went along to the opening of Vegan Revelation Cafe and met the owner Leise Taylor,” she recalls. “I became a regular customer and, when the space nextdoor to her cafe became available, Leise told me Belper needed a vegan food and refill shop. I asked if she had anyone in mind to take it on and Leise replied ‘Yes – you,’.”

Catching up with Leise for a coffee, a week after my meeting with Sue, she tells me there was no one else in the running. “I remember the first time Sue walked into the restaurant – dressed in pink – and she was the picture of positivity. Belper needed a sustainable living shop and there was only one person who could run it,” she laughs. “It had to be Sue.” Sue decided to take on the business in August 2018 and recalls the mad ‘whoosh’ between that decision and opening a month later. Sue timed her launch to coincide with a local screening of Plastic Ocean – a film which documents the devastating effects of plastic pollution on the world’s oceans. “It’s a life-changing film like Blue Planet II. Once seen – you can’t un-see it. When we opened the next day, we saw many of the film-goers,” Sue recalls.

On scrubbed pine shelves are glass jars of largely organic foods and other kitchen cupboard necessities like cooking oils, stock cubes, condiments, jams and spreads and vegan butters.

“In fact, it was mad all day. A lot of my customers said they’d been waiting for it to open. A massive amount of people just said ‘thank you’. They still do, it makes all the effort worthwhile. It’s such a lovely place to work.”

Just over a year later, the shop is a testament to all that effort. Over the past twelve months, she’s doubled the stock and the result is a charming, old fashioned, family-run store (Sue is often joined in the shop by newly retired Will). On scrubbed pine shelves are glass jars of largely organic foods – herbs, nuts, pasta, pulses, seeds, dried fruits etc – which you can buy by weight; and pop into your own container or one of Sue’s paper or cloth tote bags.

Stroll round the shop – which smells divine thanks to the homemade soaps – and you’ll find other kitchen cupboard necessities like cooking oils, stock cubes, condiments, jams and spreads and vegan butters.

There’s also a re-filling station full of family staples like shampoo and washing powder. The whole feel is so welcoming, you can’t help but linger. “It’s nice when people bring a coffee in from the cafe and come into the shop to chat or sit by the window and watch the world go by,” says Sue. “We get every type of customer. From those who are so far along in their sustainable journey they can teach me a thing or two and those who are just beginning and need some help.”

There is something splendid about the transition of Belper from 19th Century industrial town - home to the eight air polluting textile mills - to a forward-thinking town blessed with people determined to reduce its carbon footprint. These efforts have also received national recognition; Belper is one of just three English towns on the short-list for the Great British High Street Champion Award 2019 (winner to be announced in November).

“People sometimes ask why Belper is the home to so many green initiatives but it’s full of such wonderful people,” Sue smiles. “There’s 200 or more folk who know how to organise schemes and events. If something needs to happen – we’ll get it done.” And she’s more than happy for a novice like me to join the ranks; “People may start small – like buying loose pasta or switching to a detergent-free laundry egg - but everything counts,” she insists. “It’s just about getting people to understand the earth’s resources are precious and not to waste them.

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Above all, I want to help people tread more lightly on our planet earth.”

Find Sue’s Sustainables and Vegan Revelation at The Gatehouse, De Bradlelei House, Chapel Street, Belper.

For more information visit www.facebook.com/suessustainables/ Taste Derbyshire Amanda Volley made a list of the top five plastics found in her kitchen waste. Sue MacFarlane kindly offered plastic-free alternatives.

Crisp bags; “You’re buying multi-packs which involve bags in a bag. You can buy crisps in biodegradable bags. However, they’re a high calorie food, so replace them with homemade popcorn.”

Dog food sachets; “Buy his food in a tin or feed him leftovers as long as they don’t contain anything which could be poisonous to dogs.”

Kitchen wipes: “Use old-fashioned dishcloths or cut up old towels to make your own.”

Takeaway cartons. “Invest in some metal tiffin boxes and go along and ask the restaurant to use them for your takeaway.”

Microwave rice packets. “Buy loose rice and store in an airtight container like a glass jar or use an existing plastic container.

Remember, throwing out your plastic isn’t the answer – keep using it until it falls apart.”

Parcel of schemes in Belper.

There are a number of sustainable living initiatives in Belper. Here’s Taste Derbyshire’s guide to just some of the town’s green schemes.

Refill Belper Student Charlotte Creed, of Milford, has been instrumental in encouraging businesses in the DE56 area to re-fill water bottles for free.

There are currently 31 businesses taking part, including Arkwright’s Real Ale Bar on Campbell Street, Belper and The Beer Trap on the Market Place.

The Green Exchange Café.

Held at No.28 on Belper’s Market Place on the last Saturday of the month – the café was set up by environmental group Transition Belper to encourage growers to bring their excess home-grown produce/food to swap.

Tetra pak collection point Volunteers have set up a tetra pak collection bin outside the café at No28 on Belper’s Market Place on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month before 1pm. People are advised to ‘wash and squash’ their cartons before disposal.

Sharing Not Wasting This weekly event aims to distribute food which would otherwise be wasted by supermarkets and other food organisations. Anyone is welcome to use the scheme and there is a donation’s box for those able to contribute. It takes place on Fridays from 2-3pm at Early Year’s Fun Centre on Alder Road, Belper. Bring your own (recyclable) bag.

Freedom Feed Em A pop-up community restaurant. Events take place monthly in Belper and Wirksworth. Staffed entirely by volunteers, all the profits go to environmental charities chosen by the cooks. To book your place at No.28, Market Place, Belper on November 28th contact miles@ mileshalpin.co.uk

Many businesses are part of the Refill Belper scheme. baby food pouches with lids. St Peter’s Church has a bin for plastic lids, these are taken into Lush in Derby for recycling.

Pick to eat There are two areas in Belper where food is grown so that the general public can pick food for free. You can find these raised beds in the Memorial Garden on King Street and at St Peter’s Community Garden in the churchyard of St Peter’s Church.

Farmer’s Market Keep down your food miles by visiting the Farmer’s Market held on Market Square on the second Saturday of each month.

Belper Beats Plastic

St Peter’s Church, Belper.

The church has recycling bins for some items that cannot go in their household bins including empty crisp packets, biscuit wrappers and

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Self-confessed ‘foodie’ journalist Amanda Volley showcases all that is great about food and drink in Derbyshire.

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Lunch at The New Inn, Milford

Fresh, seasonal and cooked in a traditional way

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he New Inn is situated conveniently on the main A6 just midway between Belper and Duffield. And true to its name it is experiencing a new lease of life under the careful direction of Kyle and Hollie.

Make no mistake about it, this isn’t a fast food outlet where the ‘ting, ting’ of the microwave can be heard from the kitchen. On the contrary The New Inn, Milford is a place where all the ingredients are fresh, true to the season and cooked in a traditional way by their young chef. So with this fixed in mind relax, have a nice drink and enjoy the ambience of a light airy restaurant with stunning views over the Chevin, as your food is prepared.

We dined at lunchtime where there is a wide variety of dishes, one menu contains ‘light lunches’ and the other a ‘lunch menu’, these encompass both English and Italian cuisine. The pasta dishes caught my eye and funnily enough we both chose a pasta dish but for the purpose of writing this article and adding variety I gallantly gave in to my wife and went for the traditional instead.

But before that we began with a starter and I got in first with a traditional Italian risotto prepared with fresh leeks, tender pieces of chicken and topped with parmesan. We don’t always associate rice with Italy but rice has been grown in southern Italy since the 14th century, and it soon spread North to Milan where this dish became a firm favourite. With a soft and creamy constituency this generous dish was lovely although very filling. This unfortunately caught me

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out and made my main course difficult to do justice to. I think I must change my style and give more thought to balancing my choice from the menu better.

The steak and mushroom pie had a puff pastry lid and the meat was really tender and full flavoured. It was accompanied by a dish of fresh vegetables, lightly cooked and with flavour still intact. A small wire basket of chips completed the dish. A generous main course I think you’ll agree!

My wife who has a little more common sense chose the baked asparagus with a crumb and Stilton topping, this left her room for her main-course of tagliatelle pasta in a cream sauce. The flat ribbons of pasta were in a rich sauce with chunks of chicken and slithers of pancetta and mushrooms, nicely presented.

Was there room for pudding? Sadly no, so we will just have to come another day for my fruit crumble.

If however, you have a more strictly allocated lunch time than ours, there are things such as homemade fish finger baguette, steak and Stilton ciabatta and homemade beef burger all served with a side of salad and chips to tempt you.

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so and this has had a major impact on financial circumstances across the generations. As an example of these changes, the FCA* released statistics showing how wealth levels for people of the same age changed between 2006/08 and 2014/16.

While it’s certainly good to talk, this is obviously an extremely complex issue and the financial narrative is not one that everybody may want to hear.

The data showed that, for the average 40-to 50-year-old, their total wealth was less than that compared to individuals of the same age 10 years earlier. In contrast, the average individual aged 60 to 70 was found to have significantly more in real terms.

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It’s no bed of roses being squeezed in the middle either. Generation X are typically financially stretched, balancing the responsibility of helping older generations in later life with a growing need to support the younger generation. Setting money aside for their own financial needs, such as retirement provision, can therefore be extremely difficult.

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NEXT STOP WALES FOR ‘CRAZY’ WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE BATTLE Take a deep breath: the thrilling title battle for 2019 FIA World Rally Championship has just ratcheted up another notch or two as the protagonists now head to the UK for Wales Rally GB (3-6 October).

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“We really needed this win if we were to have a chance of getting back into contention in the championship. We are still quite some points behind Tänak, but still alive,” admitted a delighted Ogier who will now be looking to maintain his momentum in Wales, an event he has won a record five times.

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is nothing else we can do other than push to the maximum and do our best.”

The intense heat on rock-strewn mountain tracks also derailed fellow championship rival Thierry Neuville who languished in eighth after a costly off-track excursion. Although slipping to third in the title race, the Hyundai top gun did manage to claw back a few precious points on Tänak.

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