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Little Chester Manor from the east June 1963

Little Chester Manor House - Derby

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eaders will be well aware that Little Chester is a characterful Derby suburb which overlies the remains of the Roman small town of Derventio. What some may not know is that within its modest compass stands Derby’s oldest domestic residence: Stone House Prebend, on Old Chester Road, itself once the via principia of the military fort which preceded the town. The house, although rebuilt in the early 17th century and again in the late 18th, contains considerable medieval fabric.

It is so named because when the College of All Saints with St. Alkmund’s was re-founded soon after Derby itself in 921, the six canons of St. Alkmund and the seven canons of All Saints’, were granted land recently seized from

the Viking invaders at Little Chester (itself re-fortified by the Norse), Little Eaton and Quarndon upon which were established farms, each supplying the needs of a canon. This is why all the three settlements were all, until 1867 parts of the parish of St. Alkmund, Derby, despite being outside the ancient borough boundary. Unfortunately, no document survives to tell us where exactly they all were, but there were at least six in Little Chester.

Unfortunately, again, with the dissolution of the chantries by Edward VI in 1549, the College was wound up and its property sold.

In 1554 Queen Mary, anxious to undo some of the damage made by her father’s exactions, made some amends by re-acquiring as much of the College’s former land as possible which she gave to the Corporation of Derby as part of a charter, granted the following year, with a view to using the rental income to endow the incumbents of the main borough churches with a stipend. Not all the land in the township returned to the Corporation, however, and at least a third remained outside their control and constituted the Manor of Little Chester – mainly on the north of Old Chester Road.

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Left: Three maps of Little Chester, 1721-1899 and a recent aerial photograph showing the position of Manor House, Derwent House and Stone House Prebend.

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Below: 7. Susannah Ward, Mrs. Meynell [Godfrey Meynell]

The College was run on behalf of the Dean (who was also Dean of Lincoln and invariably absent) by a sub-dean, and we are pretty certain that Stone House Prebend was his farm. This is re-inforced by the substantial nature of the house, although in all conscience, the other two we know of in Little Chester were well above the average for contemporary farmhouses, although in their case, the enhancement of their status may well have occurred after the Reformation.

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The other surviving one is Derwent House, lying immediately north of the sub-dean’s establishment on the opposite side of Old Chester Road. This is a brick building mainly of early 17th century date, with delightful blind brick arcading, impost band and an astonishingly wide staircase for a house of its size.

The cellar was much earlier and stone lined, and was thought to be of Roman origin. We cannot check, because, despite its listed status, the Corporation of Derby shot two lorryloads of cement into it around 1980 when the tenant was having trouble with damp.

The third house, Little Chester Manor, has now vanished. It was also largely brick and of 17th century date, less elaborate than Derwent House, albeit occupying a larger footprint, and stood on the south side of Old Chester Road, about 100 yards east of Stone House Prebend, and adjacent to the east gate of the walled Roman town, excavated in 1972. This was more recently called Manor House Farm, having been re-named after a new house was built opposite to it in the late 19th century (also now vanished) itself optimistically styled the Manor House.

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The Manor House (as we shall call it) was L-shaped in plan, two storeys, in brick with a tile roof. The range facing the road had coped end gables, once with finials on the kneelers, three- light mullioned windows and, when visited by the late Roy Hughes in June 1963, had a space within it subdivided horizontally, probably in the 18th century, which was probably its great hall.

This was approached by a baffle entry, all suggesting that it had a medieval core and was probably a building of some status.

The rear extension was added to considerably at the south end in Regency times, but was truncated when the railway was built in the 1870s and further some time later. A fourth farm lay immediately to its West (lost to a row of later 19th century cottages erected by Sir Alfred Haslam, who built good quality workers’ housing here, close to his large Union Foundry on City Road. This too was almost certainly a prebend, and certainly the surviving deeds imply a third farm.

Each of these were let, and the tenants by the 16th century tended to be men of substance; after the Reformation their status increased to minor gentry: the Thacker, Lister, Haughton, Hope and Bate families amongst them. Working out which family occupied which prebendal farm is not easy due to the fragmentary nature of the surviving sources, but Thacker had the Stone House Prebend, in 1549, and the others were let, the tenancies being generally 25-year ones, although the Listers rented two in 1554, probably both vanished ones.

One suspects that the Manor House, which was still timber framed in the mid-16th century, is probably the prebend called The White House (greying oak timbers and distempered render in between) which passed to the heirs of Humphrey Sutton. The Listers probably held Derwent House along with that immediately east of Stone house, and the 1623 inventory of another tenant of a Prebend, Richard Scattergood, clearly indicates a hall house and probably related to the Manor House.

In 1648 Parliamentary Captain Robert Hope took the lease of ‘a messuage (house and surrounding land) in Little Chester called the Manor House with the croft adjoining called the Castle Yard’ – the latter designation suggesting proximity to the standing wall by the east Roman Gate. The Roman walls were not taken down until 1721. He probably rebuilt or re-cased it in brick.

His family had previously been tenants at Grangefield in Trusley, but henceforth became prominent people in Derby well into the 19th century; the antiquary and archaeologist Sir W H St. John Hope FSA was a descendant. In 1670, Capt. Hope was taxed on eleven hearths in Little Chester, which suggests that the Manor was indeed much larger than latterly, especially as the Stone house was taxed on but five.

It was most probably after the Hopes had moved into Derby (they subsequently held numerous mayoralties) that the manor was reduced in size. Nevertheless, it re-appears on the pages of history as the 93 acre holding of Walter Lord, who married the youngest daughter of Thomas Meynell of Langley, the heiress of whom, Katherine, ultimately inherited two ninths of the manor of Langley. She married Joseph son of Daniel Ward, then tenant of neighbouring Stone

House Prebend. Again, there was an heiress, Susannah, who married Derby physician and surgeon John Meynell, bringing him her share of the manor of Langley, on which his son Godfrey later built the great house, Meynell Langley.

When the antiquary William Stukeley visited Little Chester in 1721, he noted that ‘Mr. Lord’s cellar is built on one side of the wall three yards thick’. The Wards did not renew their lease when it expired in 1781, two years after John Meynell’s son Godfrey was born there. The latter later wrote, confirming Stukeley’s view: ‘In Mr. Lord’s cellar are the remains of a Roman wall.’

Final confirmation of this was forthcoming in 1988 when Chris Drage on behalf of Trent and Peak Archaeology in advance of redevelopment, excavated the site, then occupied by Pickford’s Garage, about to be cleared for house-building. He found that the earliest phase of the Manor House had been built directly onto the foundations of

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Little Chester Manor, street front, unknown date [Little Chester Local History Group collections] Little Chester manor from the south east, June 1963

the Roman mansio (travellers’ lodge) without any trace of intervening detritus, like ‘black earth’, suggesting that there was a continuity of buildings on the site between the collapse of Roman rule and the coming of the first Canons of All Saints’ College in the 920s. If so, it represents a remarkable and, in this country, rare sequence.

Unfortunately, this important little house, listed grade III, its setting compromised by the building of the Great Northern Railway western extension in 1876-78, fell vacant in the later 1950s, and the Council decided to clear it. Roy Hughes visited from the Museum, recorded and took photographs in June 1963; by the end of the following year it had gone and Mr. Pickford had erected his garage.

Now the site is marked by Derventio Close, its small semi-terraced brick houses having been built 1988-1990. A sad loss of an important little house.

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y daughter, although now 22, has gone through many enthusiasms in her short life: Barbie Dolls, Beanie Babies, My Little Pony and so on through Pokémon to soberer items. One of which was modern glass paperweights, of which we now have a considerable collection. On the whole, prices – mainly at fleamarkets and antique fairs – ranged from 50p to £25, certainly no more. Nevertheless, those made by established firms and artists, like Caithness Glass, Whitefriars, Perthshire, Selkirk (Scotland seems to specialise in this industry) and Langham (Norfolk) tend to start at our top price and can ascend (new) towards £200. Note that sometimes, you will never know the maker without the original box; this means that inexpensive anonymous ones are often by well-known makers but have been separated from their original boxes.

Buxton Crescent, c. 1806

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A typical unsigned swirl paperweight £5

Anthropomorphic weights: rat, Polar Bear and Snail Millefiori weights, one a rabbit

Named weight: a Selkirk glass pear

Those prices, however, can come down sharply at auction. At Bamfords we usually sell unsigned or unprovenanced ones - grouped in any convenient box; if there’s a really desirable one amongst them that we have missed (a rare event!) the buyer will be delighted. A group of miscellaneous anonymous 20th century paperweights is usually estimated at £20-£30 or so.

Historically, paperweights were made in the classic years between 1845 and 1860 primarily in French factories like Baccarat, St. Louis, and Clichy. Together, they made between 15,000 and 25,000 weights in this period. Bohemian paperweights were particularly popular in Victorian times. Large engraved or cut hollow spheres of ruby glass were a common form.

Weights (mainly of lesser quality) were also made in the USA, Great Britain and elsewhere, but the fashion for them declined from the 1860s until revived in the aftermath of WW2.

Indeed, in Scotland, still pre-eminent for paperweights in the UK, the pioneering work of Paul Ysart from the 1930s onward preceded a new generation of artists. A further impetus to reviving interest in paperweights was the publication of Evangeline Bergström's book, Old Glass Paperweights. Starting in the late 1960s and early ’70s, artists began breaking new ground and were able to produce fine paperweights rivalling anything produced in the classic period.

The classic type of paperweight is the millefiori (Italian for a thousand flowers) ones which contain thin cross-sections of cylindrical composite canes made from grouped coloured glass rods and usually resemble little flowers, although they can be designed after anything, even letters and dates.

Lampwork paperweights have objects such as flowers, fruit, butterflies or animals constructed by shaping and working bits of coloured glass with a burner or torch and assembling them into attractive compositions, which are then encompassed in a dome of glass. The objects are often stylized, but may be highly realistic.

Sulphide paperweights have an encased cameolike medallion or portrait plaque made from a special ceramic that is able to reproduce very fine detail. These are known as incrustations, cameo incrustations, or sulphides. They often

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Lasered Egyptian pyramid with figures inside, Arabic inscription to base.

Lampwork, in this case entirely colourless but beautifully silver. .Swarowski faceted cut crystalx

London Olympics weight

are produced to commemorate some person or event. From the late 1700s through the end of the 1900s, an amazing variety of glass objects, including paperweights, were made with incrustations. Although still produced today, their heyday was before the classic period.

A fourth technique, a crimp flower, usually a rose, originated in the USA in the first decade of the twentieth century. These weights range from simple folksy items to fine works of art, depending on the maker.

The sort we used to collect are those not made with any of the major techniques but which predominantly include swirls, marbries and crowns. Swirl paperweights have opaque rods of two or three colours radiating like a pinwheel from a central millefiori floret. A similar style, the marbrie, is a paperweight that has several bands of colour close to the surface that descend from the apex in a looping pattern to the bottom of the weight. Crown paperweights have twisted ribbons, alternately coloured and white filigree which radiate from a central millefiori floret at the top, down to converge again at the base. This was first devised in the Saint Louis factory and remains popular today.

We also acquired dump paperweights: those made from end-of-day waste green glass at bottle plants etc., with a pattern blown in and often of elongated shape. Another type is the sort with a picture inside, on the base, magnified by the curve of the enfolding glass. Here I illustrate a rather small one (cost £6) with Buxton Crescent inside – not really a modern paperweight, but inexpensive and with local resonance.

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Long after the event we picked up a London Olympics rectangular weight with the Union Flag and logo inside. These actually came in a variety of colours at some cost, but we paid £8.

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Our best find was quite a large ship’s decantershaped one with semi opaque coloured body and clear glass knop. We had to drive a hard bargain with an eastern European dealer to get in down to a tenner, but I had noticed the artist had signed it (although I cannot read the signature!). It is almost certainly Bohemia (Czech) glass.

In case you are curious, the world record price for a paperweight was set at about £221,000 in a 1990 Sotheby’s auction - an antique millefiori weight, produced in the mid-1850s by the French Clichy factory, known as the Basket of Flowers, albeit that the handle had long since broken off and the breaks smoothed off. Heaven knows what it would have fetched with its handle!

Even if you have no pieces of paper to weight down, in case they are caught and lifted by a sudden draught, these are easily collectible items, largely inexpensive and in plentiful supply.

Just try not to buy them new, as the value will plummet for the first century or so! You can get really attractive pieces, modern and unsigned for very reasonable money and, as I said to my daughter, who needs a signature if the object is an equal delight without one?

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Places of Interest on Either Side of the Lower Wye & Severn Valleys

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Beyond Birmingham and before reaching Bristol on the way to the south west, travellers using the M5 gateway to the sun often find themselves in one of the all too frequent bottlenecks, especially around the M5/M60 junction. If they give up and decide to call it a day around Junction 9 (Tewksbury), then the possibility of a completely new experience will make itself known.

Assuming the tired motorist has left the motorway at Junction 9 on the M5, it will be a matter moments for him or her to reach Tewkesbury, a town on the Severn steeped in medieval history. In pre-motorway days the journey through this ancient place could be a nightmare of cars and lorries crawling like noisy, fumespewing snails along the A38. How the half-timbered houses stood up to the vibration is a miracle, but they did and we must be more the grateful for 32 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk

it. One of the fifteenth-century houses has been converted into a Baptist chapel. It hides down a narrow alley near the abbey church, safe from the noise of traffic still using the A38, making it a haven of tranquility on even busy market days.

On a sunny day in May 1471, the Battle of Bloody Meadow, part of the Wars of the Roses took place a couple of hundred yards from Tewksbury abbey. The last of the battles between

the warring houses, it was won by the Yorkists who pursued the defeated Lancastrians along what became the A38. Many of the survivors took sanctuary inside the abbey, but were dragged out and publicly executed in the main street. While the abbey church is much changed from that awful time, it managed a century or so later to withstand the officials of Henry VIII who had come to close the place down as part of the Dissolution.

Today, because the abbey was part parish church it was allowed to survive, one of the few buildings to remain from the conflict between monarch and church.

Further along the M5 turning off at Junction 11 will give the opportunity of visiting two attractive places.

Gloucester is, as the name suggests,

Gloucester a Roman town, just one of the inplaces popular with our sophisticated invaders. This part of the Severn valley and the nearby Cotswolds’ gentle hills had as its residents the early equivalent to early retired Prime Ministers and sacked petrol heads.

For centuries the city guarded the lowest crossing of the Severn and routes into South Wales. It became the Roman fortified town of Glevum after taking over the British Caer Glowe; the Normans walled it and built a castle (destroyed in the 17th century).

A busy coaching stop in Regency times, the glory of today’s city are its inns and the Cathedral; built mainly in the 12th century as a monastic church, but refounded by Henry VIII as a cathedral. As a hint of its age, the pillars supporting the main fabric, are all of 900 years old, and the glass of its

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huge east window has seen the dawn and dusk of over six hundred years.

In Northgate Street, the 15th century ‘New Inn’ has a galleried courtyard where crowds could safely watch coach-horses being changed. Until quite recently, Gloucester was a busy inland port and the riverside wharfs can still be explored.

On the opposite side of the motorway, the A40 leads into Cheltenham. What was once a small village quickly became a popular Regency spa when heavily charged water was found in a farmer’s field.

The water is still dispensed in the Town Hall. Well known for its Gold Cup steeplechase horse racing every March and the home of an important girls’ public school, Cheltenham’s town centre is still lined with exquisite Regency buildings on either side of its wide streets. A wealth of trees preserves the character of this beautiful town despite the pressure of modern commerce. No shopping street in England can compare with the Promenade for beauty. The town has many links with music festivals Gustav Holst was born here; concerts are given in halls around the town as well as St Mary’s Parish Church where its magnificent Rose Window is an attractive distraction.

Tewkesbury Church that escaped the dissolution Part of the small garden in front of Cheltenham’s Town Hall has at its centerpiece an Italianate fountain that never fails to delight passers-by of all ages. Behind and to one side, stands the statue of Edward Wilson who died on the return from the South Pole along with Captain Scott and the rest of the polar group. Touchingly, the statue of this Cheltenham man was made by Scott’s widow. Inside a small museum and art gallery close by the Town Hall, a small piece of notepaper within a display cabinet is often overlooked. Grubby it might be, it was found on Wilson’s body and was the last message he wrote to his wife. Still legible, it was obviously written in the knowledge that Wilson was dying, and from its phrases it was likely that 34 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk

Chepstow Castle looking through the 800 year old doors his brave colleagues were already dead.

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Moving across the Severn Valley and into that of the Wye, two features are worth discovering by a first-time visitor. The first and arguably the most attractive is Tintern Abbey, one of the most beautiful Cistercian ruins in Britain. With the wooded hills of the lower Wye Valley all around, it gives an aura of tranquility unspoiled by the vandalism of Henry VIII’s struggle with the church. A much larger structure than at first glance on driving along the valley road, the abbey in its heyday held hundreds of monks and pilgrims as well as those in need of hospitalization. Careful excavation over recent years has unearthed the ground-plan of many of the rooms

The beautifully preserved ruins of Chepstow Castle still seems to guard access to the open Bristol Channel.

In fact until the first Severn crossing bridge was built, Chepstow was the first town in Wales accessible to the cross Severn ferry that could only operate when the tide was high enough.

The Norman castle sits on a high limestone ridge directly above the tidal Wye at its lowest crossing.

Established by William Fitz Osbert after the Battle of Hastings in 1066; originally designed as a timber structure on top of an earth mound, part of it used stone from a nearby

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Gloucester Church Roman fort. Becoming a shuttlecock between the warring factions, it was eventually used by Charles II to imprison Henry Marten one of the signatories of Charles Ist’ Death Warrant. In the eighteenth century hand blown glass bottles were made in its ancient rooms. For the past 200 years the well-preserved castle has been popular with visitors and was painted by JMW Turner. There is not much to attract visitors to Chepstow town itself, but the castle more than makes up for this lack. A child’s version of a fairytale castle with the guard towers and features laid out in a line overlooking the River Wye. Several are worth seeking out, from the tower where Charles II kept Henry Marten prisoner, to the idyllic terraced garden

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Tintern Abbey overlooking the Wye. Dungeons and wine cellars abound and the door leading to the Great Tower is said to be over 8oo years old.

Moving back to the east, the land rises to the Cotswolds where the earliest economy was based on wool. Roman settlers built luxurious mosaic-floored villas on land once farmed by readily Romanized Celts. The real prosperity came in medieval times when wool was the European-wide currency, even superseding linen to cover the dead. Small villages with double and even quadruple names abound, making it obvious to travellers seeking a dry-shod way beyond the safety of roads connecting the major Roman settlements.

Today’s visitors have good roads to drive along, aiming from one attractive village to the next where the locals have been quick to cater for their needs. Everything is there from the high class Lygon Arms at Broadway, to small specialist museums like the model village and a perfumery in Bourton-on-the-Water, or simply villages like Burford which seems to be high on the Japanese tourist trade.

There is something to interest every visitor to the Cotswolds, be it the mysterious Rollright Stones to the east of Moreton-in-Marsh, to visiting the nearby falconry, or enjoying a walk along part of the Cotswolds Way in the Broadway Country Park.

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Looking forward to the year ahead, lots of new varieties of plants will be coming out including summer bedding, shrubs, climbers and trees, look out for these in your local plant nursery or garden centre.

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Travelling through history

Where Our Forebears Trod A look at some of our most ancient thoroughfares

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by Maxwell Craven

H

aving looked at Rykneild Street going South West, I felt it might risk any enthusiast rather hanging in the air if I did not continue the story of the same ancient road in its opposite direction.

After all it was the Romans’ major SW to NE route, and it seems rather to have pivoted at Derventio.

According to the plan drawn in 1721 by the antiquary William Stukeley, it seems to have had a sort of bypass around Little Chester (as Derventio ultimately became).

Once one had crossed the Derwent, as described last week, one reached the settlement itself by turning immediately north up what is now City Road to enter the Roman small town. But if you wanted to reach Chesterfield, the next settlement on the route, one passed Derventio to the east, along the alignment of the present Mansfield Road.

Essentially, the route went due north along much of what is in part the A61, leaving the County boundary somewhere just NE of Dronfield. From the junction with Old Chester Road, Rykneild Street runs north along what is from the Old Chester Road called Alfreton Road (and Mansfield Road diverges east over the railway line). From there it went through Breadsall village, but its course thence has been utterly lost through the building of the Derby Canal (Little Eaton Arm), the Great Northern Railway line to Heanor and Sir Frank Whittle Way. But leaving Breadsall, drive between the church and the former school (founded by the philanthropic Harpurs in the Regency period) and you are back on the alignment.

From there it runs straight as a die up Moor Lane to the entrance to Breadsall Priory, the original monastic house no doubt founded there for that very reason: ease of communication. From there it backs more to the NNE as Quarry Road and you can follow it from the comfort of your car until the T-junction with Brackley Gate/Cloves Hill. From there the course is barely visible, but is helpfully marked on the 1:25,000 OS map, from which you can tell that Horsley Lodge (where acceptable refreshment may be obtained) sits right by it and one suspects that the drive overlies it to a large extent. Unfortunately,

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Stukeley’s map of Little Chester 1721. North is to the left. Ricning (Rykneild) Street is market on what we today call Mansfield/ Alfreton Roads.

[MC]

Mansfield Road, Little Chester, junction of Old Chester Road, marked by the Coach & Horses inn, on the site of Stukeley’s ‘Crown ale house.’ [MC]

the construction of the golf course around it, without an archaeological assessment, has probably led to the loss of much potential information along with stretches of agger – the bank on which it was pitched – is visible in part in the fields to the north. From Golden Valley to Bottlebrook (which it jinks as it crosses) it follows part of the modern road on the east of Kilburn, helpfully named Rykneild Road until it jinks at the point where Denby Lane goes off to the right, but continues as Ticknall Lane, Rykneild Hill, Station Road and then Street Lane Marehay, right up to the point where the alignment it cut by the modern A38 just west of Ripley.

The course then backed NNW to ascent the ridge to cross the B6374 Upper Hartshay to ascend Bridle Lane across the A610 and up onto Pentrich Common. Pentrich is one of a select few Derbyshire places with a fully British name

rather than Anglo-Saxon or Danish. It derives from penn (=hill) and tirch, plural of twrch (=boars), thus Boars’ Hill. On the highest point, just short of Castle Hill (and hence the name) are the vestiges of a Roman fortlet , built as the temporary home of a cohort sized detachment of soldiers probably in the first stages of the conquest of Northern England around 47-50.

That it may have found use later is possible, for it must long have been a feature in the landscape to name the accompanying summit.

Descending from there it meets the alignment of the B6013 and runs through Oakerthorpe, Fourlane Ends to Toadhole Furnace where it parts company from the road and proceeds along the hillside below the road until the two re-combine at Higham, where there was once an ancient cross on the alignment. Strettea Lane is another Roman Road (as one might gather from its name) running from Higham eastwards to

Stonebroom and Morton.

Just north of Higham the alignment becomes the A61 and runs through the diagnostically named Stretton-in-Shirland. Thence it follows the A61 un-deviatingly, all the way through Clay Cross, Old Tupton, Birdholme and thence across the Hipper (where the discovery of a stone paved causeway was reported in the local paper in 1932) to Chesterfield, Old English caestra (from Latin castrum = fort) + feld (= field). Here there was a fort, in use from around 68 to 120 but later used as a store prior to abandonment, although the civilian vicus around Vicar Lane probably supported a small wayside settlement including a posting station or mansio.

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Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Looking north up Moor Road from Breadsall [MC] Climbing to Pentrich: Bridle Lane, Upper Hartshay.

[Private collection] A 1930s aerial view of Pentrich Common showing the Roman fortlet and associated earthworks. [Derby Museum Trust] Prosaic surroundings: Rykneild Street passing along Street Lane, Marehay. [Private collection] Aerial View of Horsley Lodge, the lower part of the drive marking the approximate alignment of the road. [Horsley Lodge] This page, clockwise from top left: Higham Rykneild Street, junction with Strettea Lane (right) looking north. [E. Curry] Plan of Roman Chesterfield showing the outline of the Roman fort superimposed on the later grid of streets, which bear no relation to the simpler Roman pattern. [T&PA] Aerial photograph of St. Mary & All Saints, Chesterfield; the surrounding area lies within the Roman fort/settlement. [Private collection]

valley of the Rother, crossed by Ryneild Street possibly north of the town presumably via a causeway and ford, although no-one is quite sure. The real problem at Chesterfield is that the Romans appear to have abandoned it relatively early, so that when a new settlement eventually came about, no vestige was left to inform the street pattern, unlike many other places; only the walls of the fort, inside which the church was founded, were probably obvious several hundred years later.

Chesterfield, it proceeded on the east side of that brook, passing on the west of Killamarsh church, and through the parish of Beighton into Yorkshire; but I am more inclined to think the Roman road continued exactly in its old bearing on the west side of the river, leaving Whittington on the left, through West Handley and Ridgeway to the Roman camp on the banks of the Don, while the old Ryknield Street [Sic] proceeds on the east side into Yorkshire.’

That being so, there emerges a real problem when it comes to following Rykneild Street north out of the town. William Bennet, the antiquarian Bishop of Cloyne, wrote at the beginning of the 19th century,

Field names including the element ‘street’ have been traced in Brimington, Staveley, Eckington and Mosborough, but a road following the Rother Valley has not to date been securely identified. Bishop Bennet’s suggestion of a route through Ridgeway (with nearby Ford, a diagnostic name for an ancient road) has yet to produce any identifiable alignments on the ground.

‘The country people have a tradition of the road going on still further to the north, and that after crossing the Rother near

Thus, when looking to follow in the feet of our forebears north of Chesterfield, we are either stuck for evidence or spoilt for possible choice of route. Yet by some means Romans could travel just east of Sheffield to Rotherham, where at Templeborough there was another Roman settlement. From there one travelled NNE to Thorpe Audlin (Yorks.) to join the Lincoln (Lindum) to Castleford (Lagentium) Road from whence one could go NE to York (Eburacum) or continue north to Aldborough (Isurium Brigantium) and Catterick (Cataractonium) to Hadrian’s Wall.

But south and west from Chesterfield to Burtonon-Trent, we are much more sure of the road’s alignment, but on either section, there is much to see and enjoy.

Rykneild can be spelled in many ways. In this article we have followed the author’s spelling. Editor

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Steve Orme interviews international author

Peter James

Three years ago crime fiction legend Peter James was in Nottingham to see his stage play, Dead Simple, performed on the Theatre Royal stage. In a question-and-answer session afterwards he slammed television producers who wanted to make big changes as a condition of transferring Peter’s police detective Roy Grace to the small screen.

Now, as Peter is preparing to return to the East Midlands, his desire to retain control of how his principal character should be depicted is about to pay off.

In 2020

Roy Grace will appear on TV in the adaptation of the first book in the series, Dead Simple. A couple of other books in the series which also have the word “dead” in the title will also be televised.

So what got Peter so hot under the collar? One TV company wanted to turn Roy Grace into a woman.

Another wanted the location moved from Brighton, Peter’s home where all the Roy Grace books are set, to Aberdeen.

Now Peter has 34 books to his name.

The latest, Absolute Proof, is another standalone thriller.

Those producers didn’t realise who they were dealing with. Peter James is not only a best-selling author whose books have sold 19 million copies and been translated into 37 languages – he’s also been a scriptwriter for a children’s daily show in Canada and an executive producer on a number of major films. The last one was Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino and Jeremy Irons which was nominated for a BAFTA. So Peter should know how to get the best out of an adaptation.

Peter will be back at the Theatre Royal later this month to see his fourth play, the stand-alone thriller The House on Cold Hill.

It follows The Perfect Murder which featured Les Dennis when it visited Derby Theatre in 2014 and Not Dead Enough which bypassed the East Midlands on its 2017 tour.

The creative team for The House on Cold Hill is the same: Sean McKenna is the stage adapter, Josh Andrews is the producer and Ian Talbot directs.

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So how did Peter come to write the book?

In 1989 I had my first big writing success with a thriller called Possession and followed it with a book called Dreamer.

“My first wife and I did pretty much what the characters in the book do – buy this big, beautiful wreck of a house in the countryside about eight miles out of Brighton.

“It was a Georgian manor house that had a long history.

There’d been a monastery on the site in the 14th century and before that there’d been a Roman villa there.

Peter and his wife saw various things that couldn’t be explained. Then one day Peter took his dog for a walk and met an old man who used to house-sit for the previous owners when they spent the winter abroad.

Peter believes everyone has risen to the challenge of putting The House on Cold Hill onto the stage.

“I think a story works best when there’s a sense of claustrophobia by having everything take place inside one location. It’s a thriller and a chiller.”

Peter even had a hand in choosing the cast which includes Joe McFadden, winner of BBC1’s Strictly

Come Dancing in 2017, and Rita Simons who used to play Roxy Mitchell in EastEnders before going into the jungle in the recent series of I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!

Peter explains what he loves about theatre: “One is the danger of it. You can pick up a copy of my novel anywhere in the world and it’s going to be exactly the same. Not a single word will be different. But every time a play’s performed things can go wrong.

“What I love most of all is sitting at the back of a theatre and watching the audience’s reaction. I’ve learned quite a lot as a writer from doing that.”

Peter James was born on 22 August 1948 in Brighton.

He is the son of Cornelia James, a former glovemaker to the Queen.

He went to film school and then moved to Canada. At one point he was writing horror films for the drive-in cinema circuit.

Later he produced a comedy with Terry-Thomas and Leslie Phillips called Spanish Fly which came out in 1976. Film critic Barry Norman called it “the worst British film since the Second World War”.

In his twenties Peter had two spy thrillers published but they didn’t sell.

Shortly afterwards burglars broke into Peter’s house. A policeman arrived to take fingerprints and saw Peter’s books. He told Peter he should call him if he ever wanted any help with his research.

for his books?

“My head’s constantly buzzing. I think it would be quite nice to take my foot of the pedal sometimes and have a fallow period. But I actually love writing. I really enjoy telling stories.”

He praises his second wife Lara, who he married in 2015, for being a “wonderful help”. He says: “She’s got a very creative brain. When I’m writing she’ll make suggestions about characters. It’s not completely an isolated life.”

There’s little chance that Peter can ease off in the next couple of years. Absolute Proof is being developed for a mini-series on television, as is Perfect People, Peter’s 2011 story about a couple’s desire to have a designer baby. He’s also working on the next Roy Grace stage play which will go on tour in 2020.

The House on Cold Hill will be at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham from 28 January until 2 February.

Peter puts some of his success down to luck. But you need more than good fortune to earn the stack of awards that have come his way including the winner of the W H Smith prize for the best crime author of all time. Dead lucky? No; but you can say that Peter James is dead talented.

Peter became fascinated with the police’s job: “I realised that nobody sees more of human life in a 30-year career than a cop. That was the starting point and I began to write crime fiction.”

Now Peter has 34 books to his name. The latest, Absolute Proof, is another stand-alone thriller. It began in 1989 when Peter had a phone call “out of the blue” from an elderly man.

“He said: ‘I’ve been given absolute proof of God’s existence and you’re the man who will help me to get taken seriously’. What took me so long was that I first had to really learn and understand all the world’s religions before I could write the book.”

There can be few writers as prolific as Peter James. He spoke to me from a hotel in New York where he was staying after he’d given a talk on a cruise ship.

On his return he’ll follow The House on Cold Hill around the country before the next Roy Grace book, Dead at First Sight, comes out in May. In October he’ll publish the sequel to The House on Cold Hill called The Secret of Cold Hill.

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Enjoying the delights of

Kedleston’s Glorious Parkland

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One of the woodland walk path’s

Kedleston Hall’s back door One of the finest of England’s stately homes, Kedleston Hall was built in the nine years between 1761 and 1770 by the great architects of the time, James Paine and Robert Adam for the first Lord Scarsdale, designed in the then popular classical style. Greek columns and classical statuary decorate exquisite rooms laid out in order to influence visiting royalty by their abundance of treasures. To improve the appearance of the finished house, the medieval estate village of Kedleston was demolished and rebuilt in its present position as a model village, partly hidden half a mile away to the north-west.

Of that village only the ancient church remains as a fine example of Norman and later architecture.

North and south sides of the house were the responsibility of each architect and as a result the building offers magnificent aspects of both sides.

t is hard to believe that the ever constant bustle of Derby’s traffic is barely a couple of miles away at its closest point.

Kedleston’s park is an oasis of tranquility, with now naturalised groves and plantations, set around hundreds of acres of green-sward and lakes.

All this overlooks winding ponds separated by tinkling waterfalls, the breeding ground of visiting and permanent wildfowl, making a perfect foreground for the hall, ancestral home of the Curzons With only a quarter of its park turned over to the golfing fraternity, the rest of Kedleston Park is perfectly designed for enjoyable walking, be it on one of the graded woodland walks or beside attractive lakes made by damming Cutler Brook.

Modern walkers seem to have more energy than the Regency ladies and their squires who contented themselves with a gentle stroll of say half a mile in the pleasure grounds. Even though none of the strolls available for today’s walkers is more than 3¼miles, it can be longer, and in fact the walk I describe here links two of the longer walks, covering an easy 5¼miles. There is also the possibility of a visit inside the hall to appreciate its treasure-trove of links to generations of Curzons.

Norma Gent Derbyshire Artist

The most distinguished member of the Curzon dynasty was George Nathanial Curzon, Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Lords.

He is however, best remembered as the Viceroy of India at the height of Britain’s expansion as a world power. As a result of the influence bestowed upon him as Viceroy, he was showered by expensive gifts from the maharajas of the multitude of states then filling the map of India.

Amongst all the silver and ivory on show, there is an elaborately expensive howdah in which he was transported by a huge elephant during the Delhi Durbar. All these treasures are on display in the ground-floor rooms beyond the hall’s entrance, but the most amazing item is the Peacock Dress Pets, Portraits, Scenes, Still Life, Executive Caricatures, Victorian Life.

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THE IDEAL GIFT

5¼miles (8.45km) of easy walking through woodland and across sheep-grazed parkland.

Easy gradients throughout.

Recommended map: Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 scale, Landranger Sheet 128; Derby and Burton upon Trent.

Or Kedleston Walks National Trust Map available at the Visitor Centre.

Refreshments available in Kedleston Hall National Trust café.

Parking – next to the Visitor Centre. National Trust members free.

Access. Minor side roads from Belper or Mackworth are signposted to Kedleston. made for Lady Curzon and worn at the Durbar Ball. The result of hours of painstaking work by craftsmen, its magnificence still shines getting on for two hundred years after it was made.

The Lady Curzon who wore the Peacock Dress died quite young and is buried in Kedleston’s church. Lord Curzon’s effigy lies beside her, but as he was still alive at the time, this is made apparent by the fact that his foot is shown kicking aside a corner of the couple’s winding sheet!

The 5¼ mile walk even when taken at a leisurely pace should only take a little over two hours, leaving plenty of time to explore other features such as a visit to the magnificent hall. While the map attached to the walk’s description can be used to follow this easy walk, it might help if you pick up a copy of the leaflet on offer at the National Trust’s visitor reception office.

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A Walk with Rambler

Enjoying the delights of Kedleston’s Glorious Parkland • From the National Park Visitor Centre bear right and go through a metal gate beside a signpost ‘to the footpaths’.

• Turn right and go past two large stone gateposts and then on to a raised track entering mature woodland.

The gateposts are said to have come from the old House of Lords when parliament was being rebuilt following a disastrous fire in the nineteenth century.

• Ignore the path descending to the left away from the track and continue to walk through the woods.

In about a quarter of a mile you will come on an area of disturbed ground with deep wide holes. This is a badger sett, but do not expect to see any because being nocturnal, they will be fast asleep.

A little further on a short side path swings to the left past the old stone building known as the Hermitage. In more leisurely times it would be where Regency ladies and gentlemen took their then fashionable (and expensive) tea.

• Going slightly uphill, continue along the forest track and into the denser woodland of the Pleasure Grounds.

• Bearing left with the track pause now and then to admire the wide ranging views sloping down towards the hall.

• A seat marks the highest but still easily accessible point on the walk. Continue to walk through the woods for about a mile and three quarters.

• Bearing left as the track turns. Go with it, now downhill through the woods in what is known as Derby Screen.

• In just over half a mile, the track splits three ways. It doesn’t matter which one you take, but the right bearing tracks reach the final dam marking the end of the lakes.

• Turn left along the lakeside and follow a now grassy path as far as the hall’s access drive.

The lakes were dug by hand at the same time as the house was built. Weirs were added to hold back Cutler Brook and so create the attractive lakes.

Islands on either side of the bridge offer secluded nesting for visiting and indigenous water fowl.

Even though the lakes make a perfect foreground to Kedleston Hall, whoever named them showed little or no imagination by calling them Upper, Middle and Lower Lakes.

• Turn right along the drive and cross the bridge.

The small well surrounded by an iron fence, (Bentley’s Well) stands just below the drive and was part of an attempt to create a fashionable spa

at Kedleston. Another well now standing in the golf course on the far side of the lake (no access for walkers) is a sulphur well and must have tasted absolutely foul. Needless to say the spa project never became a reality.

The bridge was designed by the architect Robert Adam and is considered one of his finest.

• Turn left on the far side of the bridge in order to follow another grassy path on the south bank of the lake.

• Go past a bush and tree-covered island popular with ground nesting birds and enter woodland.

• At the far side of the trees walk up to the end of the lake and turn left to cross a footbridge.

• Turn left on leaving the footbridge in order to walk along the lakeside. Follow a grassy path past the brick and stone-built fishing room and boat house.

• Reaching the drive turn right away from the bridge and follow the drive up to the hall. The café is conveniently to hand in the right-hand corner of the house.

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diary@imagespublishing.co.uk Royal Centre Nottingham & Concert Hall 0115 989 5555 www.trch.co.uk JANUARY UP to 13 Jan 2019 Peter Pan 3 The Glenn Miller Orchestra 7 National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain: Come and Play 16-17 The Sleeping Beauty 18 The Nutcracker 22-26 Macbeth 24 Vampire’s Rock featuring Sam Bailey 25 Classical Music The Hallé 26 The Magic Lantern Backstage Tour 26 Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra Family Concert: Heroes & Adventures!

27 Sunday Piano Series: Teo Gheorghiu 27 Come and Sing with John Rutter Workshop 27 The Classical Music Roadmap: Ten essential stops through Russia 28 to Feb 2 The House on Cold Hill FEBRUARY 1 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 2 The Illegal Eagles - The World’s Official No.1 Eagles tribute makes its long-awaited return to the Royal Concert Hall. This phenomenal group of musicians have been touring for over two decades and remain true Eagles fanatics! Their longevity and continued international acclaim are due in no small part to their extraordinary mastery of the Eagles’ distinctive sound.

4-9 The Full Monty 7 Sandi Toksvig Live! National Trevor 11 The Third Stage - Patrick Monahan Goals 12-16 Blood Brothers 13 Dave Gorman Buxton Opera House & PavilionArts Centre.

01298 72190 www.buxtonoperahouse.org JANUARY 4 Royal Northern College of Music Callum Smart & Philip Sharp 4 Russian State Ballet of Siberia - La Fille mal gardée 5 Russian State Ballet of Siberia - Swan Lake 6 Russian State Ballet of Siberia - The Nutcracker 12 80’s Mania 13 Kinder Choirs of the High Peak - Vivaldi and Handel 15 Buxton Adventure Festival - Alastair Lee & The Brit Rock Film Tour. Britain’s best adventure filmmaker and the Brit Rock Film Tour 20 Vampires Rock With special guest star Sam Bailey 22 The Queen of Spades 22 Martin Barre Band 25 The ELO Experience 30 The Royal Opera Live - La Traviata 31 NT Live - I’m Not Running Cert TBC FEBRUARY 1 Royal Northern College of Music 56 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk

Michael Choi & Wyn Chan 3 Oddsocks Productions - Robin Hood and The Revolting Peasants 3 The Illegal Eagles 9 Aretha - Respect 10 The Performance Academy - The Greatest Show Derby Live. Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk JANUARY Up to January 5th Jack and the Beanstalk 7 Informal French Conversation Advanced 11 Mike McClean – Return of the Mac Mike’s delighted to be returning to Derby to perform his brand new solo comedy show.

12 Floyd In The Flesh - A tribute to one of the UK’s greatest bands, Pink Floyd More 16 Hans Rey: Riding Life 17 The Nightingale of South Bank 18 Martyn Joseph 22-27 Dick Whittington King Rat is threatening to take over London.

Only the penniless but brave Dick Whittington and his trusty feline sidekick, Tiddles, 23-26 Derby Roundhouse Tour 29 to Feb 2 Robin Hood and the Revolting Peasants Audiences are in for a treat as Oddsocks bring their trademark humour, fast-paced action and live music.

FEBRUARY 3 It’s a Rap! 6 Searching for Mozart - Sinfonia Viva 7 Professor Brian Cox 8 Whitney - Queen of the Night Derby Theatre Box Office 01332 59 39 39 www.derbytheatre.co.uk November 30 to Jan 5th Hansel and Gretel December 4 to January 5 Goldilocks and the Three Bears presented by Hiccup Theatre in association with Derby Theatre.

19 Warp & Weft: Bringing DerwentWISE to Life - A musical celebration of the Lower Derwent Valley, composed by John Crossley and performed by Sigma 7 and Derwent Brass.

Journey through time from before cotton mills dominated the river valley, to the heyday of the world’s first factory system, to the decimating effect of the Great War, to present day Derbyshire. An exciting collision of contemporary sounds fused with traditional brass band, inspired by the valley’s natural and industrial heritage, sharing the stories of this special landscape and its people.

24-26 Caroline’s Kitchen Caroline Mortimer is the nation’s favourite TV cook. In the glow of the studio lights, she has it all - a sparkling career, a big house, a (golf) loving husband, smart kids and the best kitchen money can buy. But when the camera turns off the truth comes out and when an unexpected guest disrupts a night of celebration there is

more to spill than the wine Welcome to Caroline’s Kitchen! Direct from its hit London run and ahead of New York transfer, this searing, sharp, state of the nation comedy is coming to Derby this Spring.

Nottingham Playhouse 0115 941 9419 www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.uk 30 November 2018 - Saturday 19 January 2019 Robin Hood and The Babes In The Wood By Kenneth Alan Taylor.

From Sherwood Forest to Nottingham Playhouse, Robin Hood and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham are lighting up our panto stage.

The ultimate pantomime villain, the Sheriff hatches a wicked plan to get rid of his niece and nephew, the Babes in the Wood, and claim their fortune. It’s down to Robin Hood to save the day and stop the Sheriff with a little help from his Merry Men and Maid Marian.

8 An Evening with Stephen Mangan A light supper and an evening with British actor, Stephen Mangan. Stephen will talk about his life, stage and TV career with Barbara Matthews. There will then be an audience Q&A and the chance to bid in a very special auction. Arrive at 6.30pm for the drinks reception followed by a delicious supper and talk. Ticket price includes food and a glass of fizz. Booking is essential, as we expect this event to sell out.

23 The News at 7:42 - Part of the Messy Unity festival. Comedy: Reflecting on current political affairs.

25 Juliet and Romeo 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, 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. Their therapist told them it was a terrible idea.

Palace Theatre Mansfield www.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre JANUARY 12-20 Aladdin Westfield Folkhouse Pantomime Group FEBRUARY 7 The Legends of American Country Tribute Show 2019 - The 2019 tour will showcase highly acclaimed tributes to Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard and Kenny Rogers, plus four brand new tributes to icons George Jones, Charley Pride, Patsy Cline and Don Williams.

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Caroline’s Kitchen

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Caroline Mortimer is the nation’s favourite TV cook.

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Adam Kay – This is Going to Hurt (Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor) 25 February 7:30pm at The Royal Centre, Nottingham

Award-winning comedian Adam Kay shares entries from his diaries as a junior doctor in this ‘electrifying’ Guardian evening of stand-up and music.

Absolute sell-out Edinburgh Fringe 2016, 2017 and 2018, Soho Theatre 2017, UK tour and West End 2018.

The accompanying book, ‘This is Going to Hurt’ is a Sunday Times bestseller, and is being turned into a major BBC series.

Copies will be available to purchase and for signature after the performance.

‘Intersperses horror stories from the NHS frontline with a catalogue of sublimely silly spoof songs, and some blissfully brilliant wordplay’ Mail on Sunday

‘Hilarious and heartbreaking’ Charlie Brooker

Buxton Cinema - Pavillion Arts Centre 30 Jan 2019, 6:45pm

Buxton Cinema - Pavilion Arts Centre From the thrill of unexpected romance to a heartbreaking reconciliation that comes too late – Verdi’s La traviata is one of the most popular of all operas.

Alfredo falls in love with the courtesan Violetta in glamorous Paris society, but underneath the surface run darker undercurrents, leading to a tragic ending.

The opera’s wealth of melodies includes the famous Brindisi and the exuberant ‘Sempre libera’ – both showing the lyricism of Italian opera at its most immediately appealing.

Richard Eyre’s production for The Royal Opera brings out all the emotional colour, from the giddy discovery of love, through painful confrontation to the inevitable conclusion. Lavish period sets and costumes enhance the reality of a moving story based on true life. This is a live screening.

Rockin’ in Rhythm – The Genius of Duke Ellington Sunday 17th February 2019 - 7:30 pm at Crich Glebe Field Centre DE4 5EU

“It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing” - a musical tribute to the peerless Duke Ellington with Sarah Moule and Simon Wallace.

The flawless jazz singer Sarah Moule, and immaculate pianist Simon Wallace, bring us an evening of beautiful music paying tribute to “Duke Ellington”, one of the greats of jazz.

This polished and spirited tribute is devoted to the sophisticated, elegant musical world of Duke Ellington, and his visionary arranging and composing partner, Billy Strayhorn. It intriguingly recasts select standards from their canon, including some rarely performed works. Stunning arrangements of songs from the vast repertoire capture the classic melodies and jazz anthems to glorious effect.

British vocalist Sarah Moule’s purring voice – honeyed in sound, subtle in timing and pitch, shrewd in weighting the music with meaning, captivates. Simon Wallace’s arrangements and sympathetic accompaniment are immaculate. Together, they create an intimate and striking voice-and-piano show. Suitable for those aged 14 and over.

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Birdwatching for Beginners walks at Carsington Water.

Forthcoming walk dates are 6th Jan, 3rd Feb, 3rd Mar, 7th Apr at 10:00 in the visitor centre courtyard. Carsington Water.

Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 15th January 2019. Flower demonstration

by Nigel Whyles. Entitled: The Ship of Dreams TIme: 7.00 pm for 7.30 pm Venue: The Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree Admission: Members £3.00. Non- members £7.00 For further details telephone 01332 558540 Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club meets in Wyaston village hall (DE6 2DR) on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 2:00pm. We have a mixed programme of visiting demonstrators, hands-on sessions under the guidance of more experienced members and a monthly competition.

5th. Jan. 2019 - We kick off the New Year with a hands-on meeting; make it your resolution to try a new skill!

2nd. Feb. 2019 - Another hands-on meeting; in addition we will have in attendance woodcarver Jonathon Hart who will be giving advice to the carving group.

Derby RSPB “Iberian Birds”. Wednesday 9 January 2019 7.30pm.

Grange Banqueting Suite, 457 Burton Road, Littleover, Derby, DE23 6XX. Admission for members is £2.00, for non-members £2.50 and juniors £1.00. www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Sunday 20 January A Free Birdwatching Walk At Carsington Water Derbyshire. 9.30am In The Sheepwash Pay & Display Car Park. The Walk Will Finish Around 12.30pm. No Facilities. More Details On The Rspb Derby Local Group Website Www. rspb.org.uk/Groups/Derby Get Ready To Join In With The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch From 26-28 January. This Is The World’s Largest Garden Wildlife Survey. www.rspb.org.uk/groups/derby Derby Chamber Music Society Friday 18th January at 7.30pm at the Multi-Faith Centre, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby, DE22 1GB. A concert by the Syzygy Saxophone Quartet Rossini: La Danza Vittorio Monti: Czardas Bach: Italian Concerto Mozart: Adagio and Fugue in C minor Vaughan Williams: Six Studies in English Folk Song David Maslanka: Songs for the Coming Day Tickets £15 and £14 (concessions) 01332 830585 www.derbychambermusic.org Derby Wine Circle Sunday 20th January 2019 – Tour of St Georges Park, England’s football headquarters.

Meetings are held on the first Friday of each month at The Evergreen Club, Allestree – 7.30pm for 7.45pm. For further information contact Julie@ 58 | CountryImagesMagazine.co.uk

Thebelks.plus.com / 01159 328217 Gilllian.wall@Ntlworld.com / 01332 551447 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.

Tuesday 15th January 2019 Tania Pels from “Derwentwise” talks to us about the achievements of the scheme over the past five years. She is talking particularly about Duffield Castle and the work that Derwentwise has done with the National Trust.

Meetings at Landau Forte College, Fox Street, Derby with talks starting at 7.30pm. 01332 703512 or email derby.members@nationaltrust.org.uk Group Members £2.50 / visitors £5.00 Non members very welcome.

Derby A Cappella If you are not currently one of our listeners and would like us to sing for you at an event contact:Gordon. Tel: 01332 518594 or gordonsavage@ yahoo.co.uk If you would like to come along to listen and sing with us we rehearse every Tuesday at Chester Green Community Centre, City Road, DE1 3SA from 7:30 until 10:00 p.m. www. derbyacappella.co.uk and also www.facebook.com/ derbyacappella/ Darley Abbey Historical Group Friday 18 January 2019 - Annual General Meeting followed by an interactive review of recent and future projects https://darleyabbeyhistoricalgroup. wordpress.com/ Spondon Historical Society ‘Spondon Village Hall on Monday January 14th at 7.30pm. Rachael Hall from the National Trust talks about ‘The Dovedale Hoard’ which is the story of how Roman and Late Iron Age coins were found in a cave having been there for over 2000 years. Members are £2.50 and Visitors £4.00. All are welcome.’

Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club For more information go to www.ddwc.co.uk where you can see reports with photos on 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.

Folk and Acoustic Music 16 February The James Brothers In Concert Florence Nightingale Memorial Hall Holloway Near Crich DE4 5AQ. James Fagan and Jamie Mcclennan are from down under Australia and New Zealand and play a mix of folk, blues and bluegrass music on guitar, mandolin and fiddle, plus great vocals. This dynamic duo are very popular on the national folk scene. Tickets £12 From Ticket Hotlines 01773 853428 / 856545 7 March - Winter : Wilson - Live At The Lion

The Lion Hotel Bridge Street,Belper DE56 1AX. Top Lincolnshire duo bring an evening of folk, roots and acoustic music on banjo, guitar and accordion with stunning harmonies.

Tickets £8.50 from the Ticket Hotline 01773 853428

New venue for folk and acoustic music The Lion Hotel Bridge Street, Belper is the venue for a series of folk concerts throughout 2019 starting on Thursday 7 March with Winter : Wilson. Guests booked for further gigs include Midnight Skyracer, an all girl bluegrass band. Later in the year, veterans of the traditional Scottish music scene The Tannerhill Weavers. For More Information Www.prpromotions@W3z.co.uk.

Buxton and Leek College Have a look around Buxton and Leek college.

Buxton and Leek College is hosting an Advice Evening in January and is welcoming everyone, from school leavers to those adults wanting to change their career or access education for the first time. The next Advice Evenings take place at Leek Campus on 16 January and 17 January at the Buxton campus (both 5-7pm).

Tutors from a wide range of subjects will be on hand to talk to students and parents about the full variety of over 200 college courses available at the college; from health and social care, carpentry, sports, arts and beauty to many more. Education and careers support staff will also be available on the night to give impartial advice about the various career paths, courses and funding options available to those seeking education.

The Advice Evenings start at 5pm and run until 7pm; for more tailored/ specialised advice on the evening the college recommends students to fill in a booking form - visit the website: https://www.blc. ac.uk/our-events/or call the college on 0800 074 0099.

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Martin Davis and Susan Tracey, both well known as local artists and founder members of Derbyshire Artists Guild, are combining their talents to put on this joint exhibition of recent landscape work. This is a rare chance for visitors to see a wide selection of their artwork in one place.

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I’m ashamed to say – even though it was launched in May 2017 – I am a late-comer to Derby’s own Bustler Market; a monthly gathering of some of the best street food vendors in the country.

Formed by four friends – Liv Pritchard of Hide Burger Bar, Stuart Costen, founder of Love Derby website, Ben Edmonds of Blok Knives and Tom Erskine from Marketing Derby – Bustler Market came about out of their mutual passion

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Gemma Byrne, Chris Wilson and Sienna,.

Peter Hargreaves and Allan Blewitt (business partners) and James Dicesare

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“We came together to create something fresh and less formal than the atmosphere in many pubs and restaurants,” explains Liv. We were all fans of street food events like Peddler Market in Sheffield and the Digbeth Dining Club in Birmingham and we wanted to create somewhere different for Derby people to come and eat, drink, socialise and relax.”

The friends were thrilled with how well visitors embraced the concept; “I think we knew young people would love it but it appeals to all generations,” explains Liv. “We can get upwards of 5,000 visitors through the doors over the two days.”

What adds to the excitement is the ‘pop-up’ nature of the market. It’s on for only two days (Friday and Saturday) on the last weekend of every month and there’s a rotating list of street food vendors. There’s always an air of anticipation to see which stall-holders will set up and, according to Liv, people like to ‘mix and match’ from all the different outlets.

“Our visitors often sit together to socialise and share their plates,” Liv says. “Yes, we do get people asking if they can reserve their own table but generally most are happy to muck-in and have fun. For the visitors and traders alike, we’ve become a tight-knit community united by our love of good food.”

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Sinfin, are big fans of Bustler; “We’d been to lots of street food markets in places like Copenhagen and it was great when one opened in Derby,” says Chris.

“I’ve never had anything like this before,” beams customer Will Hughes. “It’s ideal for street food.

I love the curry powder – it’s like a massive sock of flavour at the end.”

Gemma agrees; “We’ve attended nine Bustler markets since it opened and we’ve never had a bad thing to eat. Our daughter Sienna, who is one, really enjoyed the waffles.”

Paul says these reactions make sacrificing his weekends worthwhile.

‘Taste Derbyshire’ writer Amanda Volley took a stroll down to Bustler Market to sample some of the food – and drink – highlights.

Get Wurst There’s nothing like the aroma of sizzling hot dog sausage on a cold winter’s night to get people flocking Bisto-kid style around a stall.

But forget flabby frankfurters. Get Wurst use Bratwursts from the Munsterland region of Germany, sourced by Paul and Lindsay Melbourne of Sheffield.

“We had great holidays in Berlin and loved ‘Currywurst,” says Paul when asked what inspired him to put curry and pickles on a hot dog. “We couldn’t get anything like it at home so we launched the business three years ago.”

Paul’s assembly of the ‘currywurst’ begins with a portion of rosemary salted fries, topped with his bespoke tomato-based curry sauce. He coats the food with a dusting of curry powder and sticks a few pickled gherkins on top.

“I used to work as a charity fund-raiser. I don’t miss the office at all – except when it’s really cold.”

Find more by visiting www.getwurst.co.uk

The Italian Stallion Converted horse boxes are firm favourites of popup food companies – but odds are you’ve not seen one sporting a wood-fired pizza oven.

“I love street food markets and Italian food and everyone loves pizza,” says Holly Beasley, owner of The Italian Stallion.

“I’ve travelled a lot in Italy and wanted to start a career in food. Pizza was a perfect choice. You can put anything on top of it - like wild honey with a chilli infusion.”

Small wonder people make a bee-line for her stall. “I always laugh when children run about because they’re so excited to see us,” Holly smiles.

“Afterwards, people walk away with a glazed, happy expression we call the ‘pizza zombie’ look.”

Holly, who comes from Hinckley in Leicestershire, has a Monday to Thursday job in therapy but doesn’t mind working on weekends.

The Kebab Cartel

“I have my own horse on our family farm in Thurvaston,” she explains. “The idea evolved to set-up the gin bar in a horsebox to showcase around 40 hand-picked gins - some of which are made locally in places like Ashbourne and Chesterfield.”

When two brothers with design back-grounds launch a street food brand - you just know it’s going to be a perfect fusion of on-trend style and yummy substance.

Evie proudly displays all the work she and her family have done to up-grade the horse-box – including industrial lighting, metro tiles and Champagne corks on the walls.

Matt Zalepa, of Darley Abbey, left his job in fashion because he ‘had to’ work with street food.

“I used to work for Liv Pritchard and we both felt a gin stall would bring some variety to the market,” says Evie, who works full-time at Mertrux in Derby.

“We go to lots of fun places, meet nice people and make pizza for them – what’s not to like?”

Contact Holly via theitalianstallionpizza@gmail.com

“My brother Jay and I asked ourselves what people like to eat – and came up with kebabs.

We take our inspiration from the Middle East, Turkish and Lebanese food and they’re seriously addictive,” he laughs.

Jay agrees; “Events like this make quality food accessible to all. We also love working in a busy, party atmosphere.”

The brothers – self-styled kebab ‘gangstas’ – may have fashioned a brand which is cooler than a hipster’s beard but they become dewy-eyed when they talk about their food; especially their pillow-soft lamb and pomegranate molasses and tahini yoghurt.

“And don’t forget to mention the Kurdish flatbreads,” adds Matt.

Customer Martin Broadhurst, of Derby, was raving about the succulent lamb and the ‘duvet thick’ bread of his shawarma. “It was delightful down to the final mouthful,” says Martin, the man behind kebab blog ‘The Spinning Lamb’.

“All the other stallholders are so friendly and supportive. Everyone offers something different and – like me – they’re all so passionate about what they do.”

Contact Evie by sending a message to evie@theginhare.co.uk

Matt, from Kebab Cartel

Patty Freaks “I think it’s all our pent-up frustrations and cravings coming out,” laughs Peter Hargreaves when asked why he and fellow chefs James Dicesare and Allan Blewitt decided to put wacky ingredients – like breakfast cereal - on their burgers.

The three friends hail from the West Midlands and they have all been head chefs for well-known chains.

Homeboys

“We were bored with the kitchen and wanted freedom,” Peter laughs while waving his spatula, Braveheart style, in the air. “We all throw in ideas – like packing a burger with Nachos or Golden Grahams. It’s all about getting people to remember us and what they had to eat.”

Pete Hewitt might be a relatively new kid on the pop-up scene, but he’s already been a finalist in a national street food competition and had his Asian-inspired food featured in a cookbook.

The boys attend events around the country and their devotion to the cause of freakishly good burgers has paid off ; they recently won a national award.

“Two and a half years ago we were trading from a gazebo,” Pete laughs. “We’ve since up-graded to a converted 1978 Chevrolet van brought over in New Jersey.”

“We went through to the finals of the Street Food Awards in London and we were awarded ‘Best Burger’ in 2018 for our Freaky Mac’,” beams James. “From pickled cabbage and gingersnap gravy, to caramel waffles and maple syrup – we’ll try anything to create the best burgers people have tasted.”

To find out more visit www.kebabcartel.co.uk

Pete, from Nottingham, says it was his ‘love and passion’ for Asian food which led him to take part in BBC’s MasterChef (he was a finalist in 2015) and leave his graphic design career to launch Homeboys and ‘Ramen Boys’ - which specialises in the spicy Japanese noodle soup.

“The street food formula just works,” he says.

“People of all ages can just come down and eat all types of food. You can pick and choose, mix and match and share dishes. I think people just have an appetite for good food – I’m just pleased to be part of it.”

Pete Hewitt can be contacted via homeboysuk@hotmail.com

The Gin Hare When Evie Marsh decided to set-up a gin bar she was determined it would reflect her love of the Derbyshire countryside.

The Patty Freaks can be contacted on email via pattyfreaks@gmail.com Bustler Market takes place on the last Friday and Saturday of every month at 7 John Street, Derby. To find out more about future events and stallholders, visit www.bustlermarket.co.uk

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

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New Year, New Goals‌!

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Jump off that sofa after the festive season and start to discover the benefits of being more active. Make the most of 2019! Start training for your first 10k, join a 5-a-side league, start swimming, get into the gym or try a class. Set your sights on being able to keep up with the kids! Use your free 7 day guest pass as the starting point for getting fitter!

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A Fitter and Healthier Start to the New Year The start of a New Year is a great time to evaluate things in your life. How can you improve, what new goals do you have, what would you like to achieve? This can be in many different aspects of your life, however, if you don’t have great health and fitness it can be more difficult to achieve your goals.

We all know exercise is good for us and that it can help control our weight but do you really know why exercise is good for you?

Pain Management Regular exercise can help in managing pain. It has been shown to be beneficial for patients who suffer from arthritis, fibromyalgia and similar conditions. It is extremely beneficial for people suffering chronic pain especially in the lower back, neck, hip and knees. 30 minutes of low impact aerobic exercise such as brisk walking, stretching and resistance training can help reduce pain.

Improving Cardiovascular Health Exercise strengthens your heart and improves blood flow. Strokes and heart disease are one of the most common health problems people currently face.

Regular exercise helps to reduce the risks associated with cardiovascular disease.

Lowers Risk of Cancer There is a direct link between exercise and lower risk of bowel and breast cancers. The more active a person is they reduce their chances of contracting these two types of cancer. Regular exercise also reduces the risk of lung cancer and endometrial cancer.

Type II Diabetes Regular exercise reduces the risk of type II diabetes.

If you are already suffering from type II diabetes then moderate intensity exercise can help to keep your blood sugar levels under control.

Bone Strength and Muscle Tone Exercise helps to strengthen your bones and muscles.

This helps provide better support for your body as you age. Aerobic and strength exercises can help to prevent the loss of bone mass that is common as we age. Muscle strengthening exercises can help to improve muscle mass and tone.

Depression and Anxiety Exercise is really good for your moods. Regular exercise reduces the risk of depression, improves your sleep, improves your memory, judgement and learning skills.

Mild aerobic exercise and strength training is good for your mind and your brain. When we exercise, the brain is stimulated and releases hormones and chemicals that create a good feeling thereby improving your mood.

Exercise releases endorphins which we hear are called the ‘happiness’ hormone as they make you feel happy!

Endorphins are great for managing anxiety and clinical depression. This is why regular exercise is also prescribed for people who suffer from depression and anxiety.

Longevity Exercise is known to improve longevity in people. There are few other lifestyle choices that have more of an impact on your longevity than exercising does. Vigorous exercise for an hour a day can help to reduce your risk of premature death.

Reduce Infections Exercise helps to boost your immune system and therefore helps to prevent diseases.

Boosts Energy One of the best ways to get an energy boost is to exercise. Mild to vigorous exercise leaves you energetic for a long time after you have actually stopped exercising.

Better Sleep Regular exercise can help you sleep better. You also experience deep sleep which is more relaxing and refreshing.

Stress Relief Exercise is a great stress reliever. It helps the body to release a hormone that helps the brain to cope with stress. Exercise which makes you work up a sweat is the best as it also helps to manage physical and mental stress.

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Saturday 9th February 2019 | 10am – 4pm Join us at our Open Day and explore Richmond Aston-on-Trent, a fabulous purpose built retirement community in South Derbyshire.

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Wheathills House is proud to have been providing a service since 1984. The home is set in stunning grounds within the beautiful Derbyshire countryside. It is a lovely location in rural Derbyshire, yet conveniently situated 2 miles from Mickleover and 4 miles from Derby City Centre.

We are committed to tailoring our care around the individual needs of our residents. Dignity and respect are the key pillars of the Wheathills House care plan and we ensure they are upheld at all times.

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DEDICATE A TREE

Heritage Wood is situated 5 miles south of the beautiful market town of Ashbourne, the southern most point of the Peak District. Heritage Wood offers a truly unique opportunity for you to dedicate a tree to remember a loved one, or to celebrate an occasion, in a stunning woodland setting. Dedicating and sponsoring a tree from a young sapling and seeing it grow into a beautiful majestic tree is not only the perfect way to mark a variety of occasions and lifetime events, but also something sponsors can feel justifiably proud of. With every tree planted, you are providing homes for wildlife and contributing towards a greener Britain.

We have eight different varieties of trees available for you to choose from.

Please see our website for details. Wherever possible, we suggest that you come and visit, to select your own tree. If you are not able to do so, we will happily choose a tree on your behalf. It may be a particular type of tree which appeals to you more, or it may be the position which you find special.

Once you have selected your tree, you need to think about the wording to go on the plaque, which will be placed beside your tree. A truly personal dedication of your own words. Heritage Wood is a place of tranquillity, peaceful reflection and also celebration. A very special way to cherish and remember a lost loved one. A sponsored tree is a unique gift for a special birthday, a wedding present, to celebrate the birth of a baby, or other milestones in life. For those sponsoring their tree as a dedication to a lost loved one, ashes may be buried beneath the tree.

Heritage Wood itself is open all day, every day. It is free to enter with ample car parking, picnic benches and tables and a beautiful place to walk and enjoy.

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Innovation, identity, personality, quality and simplicity mark the unique designs from Soya Concept. (Illustrated) Visit Clarkes of Ripley and Clarkes of Belper for their amazing winter sale.

A flash of colour with your knitwear will add a touch of liveliness like this lovely round neck two tone long sleeved top. These timeless classics and designs are by Emreco and available at Jillian Hart Fashions. The winter sale is now on with up to 75% off call into the shop for more details. 40-44 Babington Lane, Derby. Tel: 01332 347647

Gorgeous on trend pom-pom hats in a variety of lovely colours. Perfect for cold winter months and available at Frox located at Draycott Mill, Draycott, Derbyshire.

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The Alphabet Gift Shop sale runs for the first two weeks of January 2019, the shops in Mickleover and Burton-onTrent stock a lovely array of fabulous gift ideas for every member of the family, and is a one stop destination for your New Year sale shopping! Visit www.thealphabetgiftshop.co.uk or visit www.facebook.com/ thealphabetgiftshop

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It wur that blinkin’ dry!

Listening to Radio Derby recently I was delighted to hear fellow Earl Sterndale lad Philip Holland talking about his new book of poems and the local dialect that is slowly dying out.

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adly he is right about dialect, because as I read a couple of poems I struggled with some of the words and realised that I too was way out of touch with the dialect that I was raised with. I fought on manfully though and slowly got into my stride, and in doing so voices from the past started to echo in my mind - the local farmer giving us instructions on how to feed the cows and put the tops on milk bottles. It’s amazing what’s stored up there isn’t it.

I know that at times when I write for the magazine I will get picked up on my phraseology by Jane but it’s the way my brain ticks along from many years of being a North Derbyshire lad.

Philip’s new book encompasses more that just dialect and is a mixture of poems, some sad and some very funny.

Try this one: After what ‘appened last Summer, when it ‘ardly come fine then’ a wet Autumn, an winter full o’ snow, frost and rime By gum, this year wur exceptional, wi’ out any doubt. an’ in fact, yer could say, it wur a bit of a drought.

Be Maytime, them mekin silage wur lookin’ quite arrassed, an all th’ pits were ‘alf-empty, an’ second-cut embarassed, Throughout June it were same, not a cloud up i’ th sky, an’ grass jus’ stopped growin’, it wur that blinkin’ dry.

There’s two pages of this one and it is absolutely superb.

Philip has had a very varied life: a Derbyshire dairy and sheep farmer for forty years; in his youth he was a semi-professional pianist; later an hotelier and wine importer; presently he is a partner in a retail jewellery business, but is mainly a poet, writer and performer. He was educated at Buxton College Grammar School, and gained his B.A.(Hons.) in English and Creative Writing in 2008 as a mature

student at Derby University studying at Buxton’s Devonshire Dome Campus.

Philip’s poetry was exhibited in the London Art Co. Poetry Competition 2005 at the Oxo Tower and Bargehouse on the South Bank. He was Joint-winner of the Huddersfield Literary Festival Open Poetry Competition 2007; and gained ‘Commended‘ poetry awards in the Wirral ‘Festival of Firsts’ 2012 and in the ‘Sentinel’ London Poetry Competition 2012. His work has been published in various poetry magazines including; ‘The North’, ‘Arnemetiae’ and ‘Norwich Writers’. Also in ‘Writers Reign’ & ‘Verbal Hedonists‘ for Derby University and had numerous poems published in ‘Derbyshire Life & Countryside’, ‘Reflections’ and ‘Country Images’.

Philip’s main raison d’être is writing, reading and speaking poetry; but he also does try to find time for his other interests of history, travel, opera, art, genealogy, antiques, Boggle, his friends, family and his very wonderful wife, Pat …though not in that order! He also likes olives, anchovies, venison, Stilton cheese, Gevrey-Chambertin and Ehrenfelser Eiswein.

To obtain a copy visit his web site philipholland@uwclub.net

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