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August nights W ith plenty of shows taking place around the County we do hope that we have some hot August nights for sitting out and enjoying the late evening sunshine.

This month we feature the Ashover show and Wirksworth Festival which attract thousands of visitors every year. Getting out and about is a definite theme this month and trying something different. Dave and Sue took a train ride on the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway and enjoyed afternoon tea.

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Brian strides out on Matlock Moor while Maxwell is firmly in the Derby City Centre exploring the history of Saint Helens House. Steve grasped the opportunity of interviewing Casualty actor Julia Watson who had popped into Derby to see her mum.

At the northern tip of Amber valley sits the delightful village of Ashover and Brian gives us a potted history of this fascinating village.

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A Local Incident During The English Civil War

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he Civil War brought tragedy to both countryside and town, none more so than in a quiet corner of the Derbyshire countryside.

Brian Spencer reports one small, but horrific event which occurred in the sleepy village of Ashover, near the head of the Amber Valley.

The quiet village of Ashover sits amidst sunny fields near the head of the Amber Valley, a place of tranquillity, but during the Civil War it, like many other hamlets, did not escape the rigours of a conflict that divided the nation.

During the reign of King James I relationships between the crown and parliament were far from easy, and when his son Charles I acceded the throne in 1625, things went from bad to worse. The king’s High Church views and ever increasing demands for war funds, provoked disputes with parliament, which were so severe that in 1630 the king dispensed with it all together and embarked on almost a decade of personal rule. For a time all was relatively stable, but Charles’ lack of understanding and stubbornness led to the collapse of his authority, gradually, culminating in 1642 when the nation fell into a state of rebellion and civil war. Hard fought battles between parliamentary forces and those supporting the

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crown raged across the country for four years.

Neither side could claim to have the upper hand, until a series of major strategic errors by the king led to the royalists suffering crushing defeats at Naseby, Langport, Bristol and finally at Oxford in May 1646. Supported only and on dictated terms by a Scottish army, the autocratic king refused to submit to the will of parliament and following a rumoured plot to assassinate him he escaped to Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight. Here he was held as a virtual prisoner until he was taken to London for trial and subsequent execution in 1648.

History only records the major battles fought in the Civil War, but up and down the country minor scues occurred as well as brutish events perpetrated by ill-disciplined troops from both armies. Ill-fed and poorly led, they acted like marauding hosts rampaging up and down the country and it was during this time that Ashover was to suffer not once but three times at the hands of both parliamentarian and royalist troops. Being then as it is now, in something of a backwater, the Rector of

All Saints Church, Ashover; scene of destruction

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Ashover, the Rev Immanuel Bourne tried to keep the village out of harm’s way by supporting neither side while appearing to support both.

The war tended to be fought around major towns and cities with Chesterfield and Nottingham being the main garrisons for the conflicting armies. In order to protect the road west out of Chesterfield from incursions by roundhead soldiers of the parliamentary army, a detachment of fifty royalist dragoons were stationed at Eddlestow Hall on the far side of Slack Hill above Ashover. In keeping with the way armies were run at that time they had no provisions and depended on the ‘benevolence’ of whoever they were billeted with, in other words, by levying blackmail.

As the owner of Edlestowe, Sir John Pershall was away, they had free run of the place, slaughtering all the stock of pigs, sheep and poultry and drinking his ale and wine in an orgy of high living.

Bored by inactivity and well-oiled with Sir John’s wine and ale, a mob of drunken royalist dragoons descended on Ashover looking for more supplies. Stopping at the Crispin Inn next door to the church they were held at bay by the brave landlord Job Wall. He stood at the door refusing to let them in, telling them they had already had too much to drink.

Severely outnumbered he was beaten up and thrown out of his own inn from where he could only watch while they literally drank the place dry. Full of bravado the royalists eventually moved out, rampaging around the village, going first to Eastwood Hall about half a mile away, the home of Rev Bourne.

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Here they demanded he pay them ten pounds for the King’s use, in other words themselves, otherwise they threatened to burn down his house, a threat they again made while extorting similar amounts from two other local notable families, the Dakyns and Hodgkinsons. Not content with this the mob continued round the district demanding smaller sums from miners and farmers in the locality.

Hardly the bravest of troops, once the royalists heard that a strong force of roundheads was marching on Chesterfield under the command of Sir John Gell of Hopton Hall near Wirksworth, they quickly retreated to safer climes, leaving the village in comparative safety.

But this was not to last.

If the Reverent Bourne thought the deserting royalists were the end of his troubles he was sadly mistaken, for Ashover received a visit from a local parliamentarian named White of nearby Milltown, where he had been keeping a low profile while the king’s troops were on the rampage. Hearing that his opponents had been given money, he assembled his own scratch troop of dragoons and fronting the rector demanded that as the latter had been able to pay ten pounds to the royalists he could therefore give double that amount to the other cause. Poor old Immanuel was in a complete quandary and his threat to report White to his superiors was simply answered by the counterthreat that if the rector and all the others did not pay up, their cattle would be taken off them in part payment. Unable to face the loss of their animals, they submitted, thankful in Bourne’s words, ‘to see the back of such a nave’.

With the next turn of the tide in the fortunes of war, the Earl of Newcastle took command of Chesterfield in the name of King Charles, so poor Immanuel switched sides yet again, only to find that once things were back in favour of parliament, he was on the wrong side

once more. Eventually the Civil War ended, petering out like a damp squib, leaving the country in a state of disorder. Parliament was in control and the country turned towards a puritanical form of religion.

Following instructions given by the new rulers, the Rev Immanuel Bourne, Rector of Ashover, threw away his surplice and stopped praying for the king. Unfortunately this did not help dispel the impressions held by those in authority who thought that deep down, the Rev Immanuel Bourne was in fact still a supporter of the king and so in1646 came the blow he had been so anxious to avoid. A company of dragoons rode over from Wingfield Manor, armed with an official demand for possession of the Rev Bourne’s home, Eastwood Hall. Despite his pleas, the place was systematically wrecked by pickaxes, gun powder and light cannons. Not content with destroying his house, the puritanical roundheads moved on into Ashover where they entered the church and set about breaking the stained glass windows and making a bonfire of the prayer books and parish records, bringing an end to Ashover’s Civil War misfortunes.

The ruins of Eastwood Hall can be seen on private land beside the Ashover to Littlemoor lane prior to where the lane climbs steeply through a belt of trees.

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The Crispin Inn still stands almost unchanged since the seventeenth century, next to Ashover church; a plaque on its wall tells the story of brave landlord Jon Wall’s stand against the royalist dragoons.

Above left: The Crispin Inn Above: Eddlestow Hall Farm Right: The plaque on the wall of the Crispin Inn

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Old Saint Helen’s House Derby Old St. Helen’s House, as redrawn as a woodcut in the 1820s

by Orlando Jewitt. [MC]

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ne often comes across houses – not always ancient ones – which have names carrying the suffix ‘Priory’ or similar. Very often, such houses were built on former monastic land or even adapted from monastic buildings, although it has to be admitted that sometimes the connection is spurious and the nomenclature arrived at quite vicariously.

The present St. Helen’s House in Derby is a case in point. Thanks to the enterprise and dedication of Richard Blunt, this magnificent mansion of 1766-67 by Joseph Pickford, is not qualified as a subject for this series, being now again resplendent on King Street, although a decade ago one might have been forgiven for assuming it was well on the way to being so included.

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The name goes back to the existence of a lost parish church on a site almost opposite, dedicated to St. Helen. Such dedications, if traceable to the early 12th century and beyond as here, are usually taken to be ancient, possibly even late Roman in origin, the dedicatee being in this case the mother of the Emperor Constantine the Great and discoverer of the True Cross.

This parish church, although likely of preconquest origin, is not thought to have been one of the six recorded in Domesday Book for, as Dr. David Roffe pointed out – when he was working with us at Derby Museum and with the former Derbyshire Museums Service in 1985 to re-evaluate the Derbyshire Domesday for the nonocentenary of the original – much more than one might imagine were omitted, mainly because they were free of the burden of tax payable to the Crown. This included some proprietory churches, especially in towns, which were often built by a landowner on his town property – his urban fee – as a personal holding.

Old St. Helen’s House as drawn by Sir William Gell from the upper windows of the New Inn, February 1792 [Exeter Archives]

Thus in c. 1135 a burgess of the burgh of Derby, one Tovi, or Towy, probably a man of Norse descent, gave property on King Street, then part of the spinal road passing through Derby from north to south, as a monastery, including a well called St. Helen’s. Within a decade, another grandee, Hugh de Derby, had given land at Little Derby, now Darley Abbey, for the foundation which had then transferred to its new site to become the largest monastic foundation in the county. This donation had the benefit of the support of the Earl of Derby.

Thus the small foundation in King Street then became an oratory, a sort of outlier to the main monastic foundation, and by the reformation had become an hospital staffed by nuns. In 1538, it was dissolved with the main abbey in the second round of the dissolution, a move that must have placed many in the town and surrounding area into distress.

These days, people forget that the monasteries were the original welfare state, providing mainly medical care both in-patient and external, hospitality for traveller, and educational services for children. All of these were furnished by the Abbey of Darley, and post-dissolution Derby School was formed to replace the latter function, albeit only nominally in continuous succession to the Abbey, until ‘comprehensivised’ in the 1960s and then losing its identity entirely in a move by the County Council thirty years ago.

The site was sold in 1545 to an asset-stripper, William Berners (later Sir William) and part at least of the conventual buildings, thus secularised and described as a messuage (house outbuildings and grounds) rather than an hospital, was sold off at a profit.

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Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Lord St. Helen’s, miniature painted in 1835, by H. P. Bone. [Christies] Foljambe, of Walton Hall, near Chesterfield.

They also had a substantial holding in Derby, just south west of the town on the far side of the Odd Brook, called rughedyche, today’s suburb of Rowditch which did not, it would seem include a residence. This later presence of the Foljambes may be reflected in the much earlier foundation of another chapel (or the original chapel re-dedicated), dedicated to St. John, within the Hospital of St. Helen, and endowed with Foljambe lands at Brampton by Chesterfield in the 1220s.

It may be that Sir Godfrey Foljambe purchased Berners’s portion and united the holding, enabling him to build a house for the use of his family when in Derby. It is likely that St. Helen’s

Burdett’s map of Derby as revised in 1791 showing the footprint of Old St. Helen’s. [MC]

adapted, was used also by their bailiff for Rowditch and by the family when in Derby on official business, as grandees like the Foljambes were expected to serve as High Sheriff and perform other legal functions as well as looking after their business interest which, in the Foljambes’ case included both coal and lead. In other words, the site became their Derby town house.

By the Jacobean period, a new two storey and attics house appears to have existed which had segmentally coped curved attic dormers both on the front and side elevations, with mullioned windows. The presumption is that this was built onto the north side of the existing (and surviving) conventual buildings. These latter were probably of stone, for monastic houses tended toward a more permanent, solid, if expensive, method of construction, although the domestic parts might have been timber framed. It is not clear if the Foljambe addition – probably the work of Sir Francis Foljambe, of Aldwark, 1st Baronet – was of brick or stone, but when the building was drawn in February 1792, the main block had lost its original fenestration and had been adapted as an artist’s studio for our most celebrated painter, Joseph Wright.

Such alterations would have been far simpler to have been made in a brick building than stone.

The grounds of the house included the King Street frontage at least up to Lodge Lane, which probably took its name from a gatehouse and lodging relating to the convent there. It also included orchards and gardens to the south beyond the present St. Helen’s Street stretching to the NW boundaries of the houses on the N. side of St. Mary’s Gate and the east boundaries of those in Willow Row. However, Sir Francis Foljambe – something of a spendthrift – in 1633 sold off some of the grounds before dying in 1640, when the remainder left the family, being sold to Francis Goodwin, third son of former Bailiff of Derby Francis Goodwin the elder (1548-1626). On his death aged 67 in 1660, the southern half of the property, known as Goodwin’s Orchard, passed to the second son, Thomas (1633-1699) whilst the northern portion, including Old St. Helens, passed to the third son, Samuel.

Samuel Goodwin died in 1717, when it all passed to his nephew Samuel Burton of Weston Underwood (d. 1750). On his death the house was let by his re-married widow in

His second son, the eminent diplomat Alleyne FitzHerbert (died 1839) was born there in 1753. He must have had fond childhood memories of it, for he took St. Helen’s as his title when raised to an Irish peerage in 1792; Cdr. George Vancouver named the explosive Mt. St. Helen’s in Canada after him that year. Later, the house was sub-let until he succeeded as 6th Earl Ferrers in 1778, to Hon. Robert Shirley. Soon afterwards, William FitzHerbert’s son, Sir William FitzHerbert 1st Baronet, granted the painter Joseph Wright ARA a new sub-lease in April 1779. He it was who must have had the first floor removed and the windows altered to bring in north (actually NE) light, as recorded in the later picture.

Joseph Wright is said by his niece, who wrote a reminiscence of the artist’s life there at this time, to have stored his canvases in the former Chapel of the oratory which she says was panelled. The Wrights remained there and brought up their family until Hannah Wright died in 1790. The loss of his wife marked a sharp decline in Joseph’s health and in May 1793, he moved to a smaller house nearby, 27, Queen Street, formerly the home of his friend John Whitehurst FRS. On the death of freeholder Samuel Burton’s widow, the Burton holdings at St. Helens passed to Joseph Sikes of The Chauntry, Newark. The other part of the property, the two and a half acres of orchards to the south, had already descended to Derby’s radical Tory MP Daniel Parker Coke of The College.

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Samuel seems to have removed the conventual buildings to the south and added a neat four bay two storey wing in Restoration style, but included a lancet doorcase, clearly a vestige of the old oratory, for the entrance. This was clearly henceforth the ‘polite’ part of the house. There were cross windows and a top balustrade hiding a flat roof.

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when the house and land were put up for sale as surplus to his heirs’ requirements..

Sir William Gell’s 1792 picture was copied by Orlando Jewitt for Stephen Glover’s various accounts of Derby, but he misunderstood what he could see, and turned the arched gables on the south side into semi-circular dormers in the 1660s wing, which was also very conveniently given a pitched roof for them to light; he also managed to lose the balustrading altogether.

In 1798 William Lindley of Doncaster, an architect of some repute hired by the Sikes family, had written: “Another of my worthy employers (a gentleman in Lincolnshire) has recommended me to make a valuation of a large premises in the Town of Derby belonging to a Mr. Sykes (sic) of Newark,

and Mr. Cooke [Coke] of the former place; I am also to make [a] plan thereof to form a new street etc. so that the ground may be sold in separate lots for building upon.”

He recommended the house be demolished, which was done in winter 1799; the materials were advertised for sale in early February 1800. The site was bought in April 1802 by spar turner Richard Brown, who proceeded to erect his marble works on the site, specially designed machines being driven by a Boulton & Watt 6 hp steam engine.

Lindley’s “alley or footway” was indeed improved to form the street by Richard Brown who took over the site in 1800 and of which the Improvement Commissioners wrote 19 August 1815: “Messrs. Brown & Son having formed

a street from St. Helens to the Willow Row, which if laid open, will be a great public convenience.”

The Commissioners therefore resolved to persuade the parish of St. Alkmund to “adopt” it and “place it in such a proper state of repair as [they] are willing to accept” after which they would undertake “the future repair of the footpaths in the street”. This clearly happened and it certainly appears on a map of 1802.

Today it is, of course, St. Helen’s Street.

The marble works continued until 1884, and was succeeded by a variety of users until becoming part of Smith’s clocks in 1993, being sold off in 1998. The oldest industrial building in Derby, it is about to be transformed into a care home.

But of the ancient St. Helen’s, not a trace remains.

The original 1802 north range of the spar manufactory of Richard Brown, photographed in 1988 prior to the loss of the original cast iron framed windows. Note the proximity of the present St. Helen’s House. [M. Craven]

The remains of the marble works in September 2015, after Quaker Way had been put through part of the site in 2009. [M. Craven]

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at an anticipated four-figure sum. This caught my eye more for its anticipated price as for anything. Of course, the film, was memorable for Kenneth Williams as Caesar’s wonderful line, ‘Infamy, infamy – they’ve all got it in for me!’ and for us historians, the appearance of Hengist and Horsa (Kenneth Connor & Jim Dale, two ‘Britons’) was hilarious, these semi-legendary Saxon freebooters appearing 500 years ahead of their time!

The idea was inspired by the 20th Century Fox Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Cleopatra epic of 1963 and the intention was to use the costumes and sets of the Hollywood epic film made at Pinewood Studios in England before that production moved to Rome and built new sets there. Carry On Cleo was therefore a glorious send-up of the epic.

Of course, Hollywood is famous for its leaden sense of humour (to put a positive spin on it), especially where commercial interests were at stake. The original poster (the one for sale in June) by artist Tom Chantrell directly parodied the Hollywood version but was withdrawn from circulation after 20th Century Fox successfully brought a copyright infringement case against the distributor. This version was thus swiftly pulped leaving only a few originals out there, although you can get a reprint for a tenner. The second (replacement) version was not nearly so good, either.

This page, top to bottom: The pulped version of Carry on Cleo (1964) The substitute version of Carry on Cleo – a snip at £15 The poster for the original (Hollywood) Cleopatra 1963 A forgotten gem: Romanoff and Juliet (1961) 27 x 41 in, £28 The epitome of the spaghetti Western: The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) 27 x 41 in., £495

An original of the Hollywood Cleopatra will set you back between £80 and £100 retail, the parody can go as high as £595 retail, whereas the revised Carry On Cleo poster comes in at £15, all of which sums up the range of prices cinema posters tend to command, although the fame or notoriety of the film counts, too as does the age.

The standard later 20th century size is 27 x 40 inches.

Intentional or not, many of the items being sold today as original posters, particularly through online auctions, do not meet the criteria used by most collectors to be deemed a collectable item. Often the word ‘original’ is misunderstood to mean ‘collectable’; however, there is a big difference.

Posters strictly speaking are promotional aids produced by film studios for distribution directly to cinemas or distribution centres are considered to be legitimate ‘movie art’. They are generally printed domestically to where the film is released.

They are designed, produced and distributed solely as advertising materials. Once they have been used for the purpose of advertising they are then returned or destroyed. This makes them harder to find, once a film has departed from the cinema, thus creating a very limited supply.

Less collectable are posters deliberately printed for sale to collectors (nice paradox!), reprinted posters – £10-15 usually – and anniversary issues or limited editions released officially; I shall ignore TV and video posters, which are rather different again.

Another complicating factor is that particularly ‘iconic’ (grossly overworked cliché) films had multiple releases, like Gone with the Wind released in 1939 which, since its original release, has been re-released in 1940, 1941, 1947, 1953, 1954, 1961, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1980 and 1998, each time with newer versions of the poster sometimes featured new or up-dated images.

Thus a 1939 one recently went for £4,150 whereas a 1954 one made £120 and a 1998 one £15.

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British classic The Dam Busters (1955) 27 x 40 ins £995 retail.

Gone with the Wind, original version (1939) All illustrations are from private collections Posters vary in size (numerous small ones could be posted up on one billboard) and were usually delivered folded. Rolled up ones tend to be reproductions although even repros. themselves can be quite venerable!

Collectors grade them from mint through near mint, very good, good, fair and poor.

As with coins, only experience can enable you to grade them accurately. To provide an example: an original poster for the enjoyable spaghetti western The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (1966) 40 x 30 folded, mint, was sold recently for £390 retail; the re-release (1971) poster near mint £245 and the same, only fair £65.

When you bear in mind the sheer number of films ever released to an unsuspecting public, you realise that there must be a lot of original poster out there, despite the return clause imposed by the studios on cinemas. Thus your favourite films are probably going to be the more popular ones, and thus with the added burden of demand, more expensive, yet going after niche ones and obscurities is a good idea.

But then, you might want to buy an old film poster just to put on the wall to brighten up your room, flat, apartment or house. In this case, a reprint should be fine and £20 or less should be about right. Serious collectors do

not frame their specimens up, but keep them in map cabinets, or if folded in filing cabinets.

The other day a pile of folded original came through Bamfords estimated at £40-60, but not including any very memorable titles, yet at a Jaguar antique fair at the former Railway School of Transport we saw another folded pile all at £30 each. Therein, of course the essential difference between auction and dealer prices.

Nevertheless, original artwork usually goes via auctions as well as original of ‘iconic’ titles. The place not to buy, unless you’re looking at very modest prices for posters of dubious authenticity, is on-line.

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ucked away almost hidden at the top of the Ecclesbourne Valley; Wirksworth is one of those places where a visit will open the eyes of even the most jaded visitor.

Here is a town where its houses speak of a history marked not by decades, but by centuries; Georgian coaching houses and imposing one-time commercial buildings alongside Jacobean gentlemen’s residences, or tiny cottages half hidden within a maze of narrow alleys tell us that Wirksworth is a place where time has marched onwards without being frozen. This is a town where the past is forever with us, but rather than being a museum piece, it is vibrantly living in the twenty-first century. Change has happened, industries have come and gone, but rather than look depressed, Wirksworth is a place where life is for today.

tells in easy to follow displays within a modern setting, the story of what is once more a vibrant town. A short wander around its brightly lit rooms filling three floors brings to life in anecdote and reportage, the story of a place that fascinated HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. At a high level luncheon at the Royal Albert Hall in 1985 he trumpeted the success of a rejuvenated town to a meeting of bewildered town planners and journalists.

Many of them had no idea where Wirksworth was and had to delve in gazetteers and timetables before rushing north to see what had excited the prince so much.

The main reason for this change and the way it links its past to today, is summarised in the new(ish) Heritage Centre on St John Street, just a few yards down the road from the market place. It

The exhibition at the Heritage Centre shows how industries have come and gone, but rather than be blighted by it, Wirksworth has picked itself up and literally shaken off the dust before moving on to the next stage in its life. For such a small place, it has seen many changes; Lead mining was the first and for centuries the main source of employment. As far back as Roman times, it’s yet to be found headquarters of Lutudarum, oversaw the production of pigs (ingots) of lead destined to be made into water pipes or to cover the rooftops of Rome’s imperial palaces. Ingots carelessly lost then found along the way are marked Lut. as coming from Lutudarum and Ex. Arg. to confirm that the lead’s silver content had been removed. Lead mining went on throughout the centuries, controlled by a Barmote Court, the oldest legal system in existence which still meets in April every year to settle mining disputes.

Wirksworth Heritage Centre opening.

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Although quarrying, which later became the major industry for the area, had an almost disastrous effect upon the town, Wirksworth had a number of smaller industries, ranging from the ubiquitous cotton spinning, to hosiery knitwear silk weaving, and the little known, but important production of tapes. It is said that Wirksworth every year produced enough red tape www.countryimagesmagazine.co.uk | 35

to go twice round the world. Alongside this symbol of the legal system, everything from decorative ribbons to laces for Edwardian ladies’ corsets, boot laces and the fuse-bindings of Mill’s bombs used in the Great War were also made here.

At least two authors had links with Wirksworth. Following a holiday here at the home of an aunt, Anne Elizabeth Evans, better known from her pen name George Eliot, used the town as the setting for Adam Bede. Haarlem Mill, one of the main tape producers where her uncle was manager became the prototype for Mill on the Floss – his tool chest is one of the Heritage Centre’s exhibits.

With prosperity came the need for banks. In 1780 John Toplis and later Richard Arkwright, founded a bank to handle the wealth of the town’s prominent citizens: the notorious Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of its early clients, but she was not over popular due to her uncontrollable gambling habits. The bank produced its own bank notes – quite a courageous act in its day; two printer’s plates for these notes are on display. The bank eventually became known as Lloyds Bank plc which flourishes to this day.

The other author to use Wirksworth as his home was D.H Lawrence. For several years he lived with his German-born wife at Mountain Cottage above the Via Gellia. During the Great War, xenophobia put anyone not British under suspicion, insisting they frequently report to the police. At one time Freda being German was considered a spy, especially when she and Lawrence were spotted enjoying a walk along a Cornish clifftop. As a result they had to move back to the east Midlands, away from the sea and close to a police station.

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It was quarrying that almost destroyed Wirksworth, yet at the same time it became the catalyst which helped preserve many of the ancient buildings. The massive beds of limestone surrounding the town provided stone for everything from building material, to the 120,000 war grave-markers that were

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What did almost destroy the lovely old market town, was a quarry a matter of yards from the town centre. Known locally as the ‘Big Hole’, daily it covered nearby houses with layers of dust, or worse by bombarding them with flying debris. As a result people began to abandon their homes, leaving historic houses to gradual decay.

It was only when the quarry became uneconomical that those with an eye to the potential of the semi-derelict buildings decided to bring them back to life. Part of the exhibition shows how once tumble-down Jacobean houses were rejuvenated. Shops around the market place regained their Victorian ambience; one in particular, Mason’s iron mongers is commemorated by an almost bewildering display of stock it once sold. Like all bygone ironmongers its stock ranged from shot-gun cartridges to a sit-bath that looks more like an instrument of torture, rather than a source of comfort.

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The result of all the hard work and fore-sight saving Wirksworth, now known as the Wirksworth Project, was the award of the prestigious Europa Nostra Medal. Not only did the project prompt the approval of HRH Prince Charles, but it also became the blue-print for other similar schemes for small town conservation schemes throughout the country.

Children are well catered for at the Heritage Centre. Attractive hands on exhibits that include a jig-saw version of the woolly mammoth’s skeleton found by miners seeking lead in Dream Cave. Children can also imagine themselves scrambling through the same cave by following an indoor version winding its way inside the walls of the centre.

Left: Plaque decorating the wall of the Barmote Hall.

Below: Marsden’s Iron Mongers shop display.

A side room is available for conference and study purposes. Our visit coincided with an exhibition and plans to restore Aqueduct Cottage, the ruined canal-keeper’s house at the junction of Cromford Canal and the Lea Bridge arm. Gradually over the years, this once lovely building has slowly fallen into ruin, but with care and enthusiasm, it can be brought back to life.

A hanging plaque showing the Saxon wall carving known as t’owd man, an ancient lead miner, invites visitors to Wirksworth’s Heritage Centre. The bright and airy centre is converted from a small shop near the Memorial Gardens on St John Street. On three floors it has a shop and café at ground level, then two upper lift accessible floors devoted to displays with easy to follow information about the town’s history. The section on local names particularly interested me. My family name is Spencer, one of the oldest Wirksworth families, first recorded in Wills dating from as far back as 1473. I knew I had links with the area, but not that far back in time!

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Time: 7.00pm Venue: Heritage Centre Out On A Limb By Rachel Murray Date: Saturday 7th September 2019.

Time: 6.00pm Venue: The Gothic Hall, Old Baptist Church, Coldwell Street, Wirksworth DE4 4FB Gig On The Roof Date: Sunday 8th September 2019.

Time: 4 .00pm Venue: Market Place Silly Funny Boys By Sleeping Trees Theatre Date: Tuesday 10th September 2019.

Time: 8.00pm Venue: The Town Hall A Letter From Alice By Independence Dates: Wednesday 11th September 2019.

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Kyla Brox Date: Friday 13th September 2019.

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Here’s To Life By Mark Gwynne Jones, Souldeep, John Sanderson, Jumoke Fashola Date: Sunday 15th September 2019.

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Spanish Guitar Music Through The Ages By Priestley Taylor Classical Guitar Duo Date: Friday 13th September 2019.

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Roger Mcgough & Little Machine Date: Friday 20th September 2019.

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Concert By Nottingham Chamber Wind Ensemble Date: Saturday 14th September 2019.

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Rebel Sound Date: Saturday 21st September 2019.

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Afternoon Tea on the

Ecclesbourne Valley Railway

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e’ve dined on some memorable trains; breakfast on the Lake Shore Limited as it skirted the edge of Lake Erie on its route from New York to Chicago. Lunch at 190 miles per hour on one of the Frecciarossa trains between Naples and Florence and dinner on board the California Zepher as it made its long trek through the Rockies from the Pacific Ocean to our destination, Denver.

So, I jumped at the opportunity for Susan and myself to expand our dining experiences with afternoon tea on the local Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.

The line, which runs from Wirksworth to Duffield, was closed to passenger traffic 70 years ago and to freight 40 years later. With

the help of volunteers the line has been reopened and buildings restored. Many years ago the original Wirksworth station building was demolished to make way for a mineral loading dock. That has now been removed and a new station building, on the site of the old one, is under construction; built with modern materials and thankfully, up to date facilities.

Our journey started at the headquarters of the heritage railway center situated on Coldwell Street, Wirksworth, once the terminus of the old Duffield Wirksworth Midland Railway branch line. We parked in the large car park attached to the station site and made ourselves known at the souvenir shop; it also doubles as the booking office.

We were told that this afternoon’s service

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would leave from platform 2.

The luxury afternoon teas are pre-booked and served on the 14:10 service from Wirksworth to Duffield. When the train arrived at platform 2 one of the many volunteers escorted us to our reserved compartment. The carriages are mid-20th century corridor style with opening top windows, brass door handles and a lot of polished woodwork. We could see that each compartment on the train was set for a party of 4. Tickets are sold in pairs and so, waiting for us in our compartment were 2 ladies we would be sharing the journey with: Barbara and Jane.

The compartment is designed to seat 6 people. However, for the afternoon tea,

it’s restricted to 4. The table was decked out ready for the service: bright cutlery, china tea service, white table cloth and 4 glasses of buck’s fizz. We introduced ourselves and before the train had left the station all of us had started on the fizz!

As the train moved slowly away from Wirksworth station service began. The tea included a varied selection of freshly made sandwiches including tuna, cheese and cucumber and ham served on the bottom plate of a traditional tiered china stand. The top layer contained 2 delicious fruit scones with jam and clotted cream, 2 moist slices of carrot cake and an apricot filled pastry. Our empty glasses were taken away and replaced with a pot of fresh tea and for a coffee drinker like me, a pot of fresh coffee; regular or decaffeinated. Throughout the journey we were asked if we’d like more tea or coffee.

Although the journey is only a round trip of 18 miles we discovered a lot to chat about with our fellow travellers; who both had

railway connections. We stayed on the train in Duffield for the return journey to Wirksworth.

We finished the cakes and scones and were offered yet more tea and coffee.

It had been a delightful experience.

Afternoon tea at a leisurely pace; watching the countryside glide past. Nothing to do for almost 2 hours but enjoy the food, conversation and scenery.

The experience includes a full day rover ticket so that guests can enjoy the freedom of the line on the day and explore the surrounding countryside. A comfortable way to explore is by leaving the train at Idridgehay and walking to Shottle to catch the next train or walking to Idridgehay from Shottle. You can also use the day ticket to start at Duffield before the dining train and return there afterwards on the last train of the day.

For the railway enthusiasts the locomotive hauling the train was a diesel BR Class 33 no. 33103, named Swordfish after the bi-plane not the predatory sea creature.

ABOVE: Buck’s Fizz and a railway view.

BELOW: BR Class 33 Swordfish passing the new Wirksworth station.

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Repton Capital of the Kingdom of Mercia

by Brian Spencer

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he history of the North Midlands is writ large on this ancient town set high above the quiet meadows bordering the River Trent. Its history is traced from Saxon and Norman times, through Tudor to the present day. Even the Danes who came this far up the Trent in their longships, made it their winter base during their attempted expansion south from Northumbria into King Alfred’s Wessex.

Repton’s parish church of St Wystan is built on Saxon foundations, part of the priory that brought Christianity to this part of the Midlands. Remains of the ruined 12th century ecclesiastical house are incorporated within the famous school, the most important remnants being Prior

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Overton’s Tower, now part of the Headmaster’s House.

The school can trace its foundations back to the time when the earliest Saxons settled here; today it is the North Midland’s major centre of learning. The parish church, that most recognisable part of that monastery still stands, with a

Repton Cross needle-like spire beckoning the faithful over miles of watermeadows. It shelters a rare old crypt as well as overlooking the fine school buildings old and new, with grey walls and red walls, gables and red roofs, green carpeted church yard sheltered by ancient trees, the whole overlooked by delightful cottages – along the road to Bretby there is even a rare example of a black and white house with a room that overhangs its porch.

When those early Saxons erected their simple timber and mud-walled church some time around the middle of the 7th century, it began a thousand years of building, giving us one of the most noble of village shrines. They gave us a crypt which grew in fame until it became the northern

equivalent of Westminster Abbey. Beginning with King Æthelbald (AD716-757) it became the final resting place of Mercian kings and queens including King Wiglaf and martyred Prince Wystan his grandson, who was murdered in AD849. For many years the crypt beneath the church sheltered the remains of the martyred prince who had been treacherously murdered by his cousin, but in 874 his remains were transferred to Evesham on the approach of invading Danes.

By this time Wystan had been made a saint and his shrine a place of pilgrimage. Such was the popularity of a pilgrimage to St Wystan’s Repton tomb that the crypt was regularly dangerously overcrowded by devout pilgrims. As

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a result an extra set of stairs was made, creating an early example of a one-way system, which stands to this day.

Around this time the Danes were for ever making a nuisance of themselves and after one particular foray in 850, they destroyed the monastery which had stood there for more than 200 years. When later Saxons built a church on the site of the old abbey, they laid its foundations on the remains of the old chancel walls, walls that are still standing to this day. Part of this rebuilding left us a crypt that has been called the most perfect example of Saxon architecture, certainly in this part of England. Only 17 feet square, it has a vaulted roof with small rounded arches resting on four spirally wreathed pillars, and eight extra half pillars on the walls. Modern windows have been cut into the walls to let light in and show us the crypt to its best advantage.

There are still traces of an old altar, and an opening in the western wall which is believed to have been a peep-hole in by-gone days when lepers or the infirm could view the shrine without struggling up and down the steps.

The crypt was desecrated during Henry VIII’s Act of Dissolution and forgotten until the end of the 18th century, when a workman accidentally fell into it while digging a grave. Near an entrance to the crypt from the outside, a holy-water stoup, made for the use of the priory can still be seen. Today’s visitors have none of the struggle early pilgrims experienced. Modern lighting allows access even though it must be remembered that the stone stairs both in and out are hundreds of years old.

Today’s visitors to St Wystan’s, Repton’s parish church, can see the work of the 12th century and later builders who

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Bottom left: Repton’s historic crypt where the kings of Mercia are buried.

Left: Priory Gateway - entrance to Repton School.

Below: The Parish Church with its slender steeple.

reshaped the Saxon church but the chancel walls are mostly as they were when the original 10th century craftsmen downed tools on their last day’s work. There are still the remains of two Saxon pillars with square capitals which were once part of the 13th century nave arcades, but now stand in the two-storied porch. Above its ancient door, St Wystan looks out from a small niche, watching visitors, old and young who come to see his wonderful Saxon church. Outside and on the side of the support tower of the slender spire is a clock, which prides itself as being half the size of Big Ben’s clock on the Houses of Parliament in Westminster.

It comes as something of a shock when wandering around the churchyard, to see the number of Commonwealth War Graves tucked away in a secluded corner. With only the odd exception they hold the remains of trainee glider pilots killed during training flights from their school based on the site of what is now Toyota’s Burnaston factory off the A38 near Derby.

Repton School celebrated its 400th Anniversary in 1957. Built on the site of the old priory church, its spacious main hall was designed in 1886 by Sir Arthur Blomfield, a major Victorian architect, in memory of Doctor Stuart Pears. It was under his rule that what was then a grammar school, became in the space of twenty years one of the great public schools in the country.

The friendly local pub the Bull’s Head offered to look after our dog while using the inn’s toilets in a village without such public conveniences for visitors, rounded off a day visiting this onetime capital of Mercia, one of England’s original four kingdoms.

A stroll around this attractive not-so-sleepy village of interesting old buildings with the occasional antique shop, can be extended by a two mile drive out to Foremark Hall. While not generally open to the public, the view from the outside is well worth the visit. Built in 1760 in the Palladian style, for the Burdetts, it is now a preparatory school for Repton; the family church is a National Trust property open to the public on advertised days. A century older than the house, it is externally Gothic, but its interior is still Jacobean, furnished with boxpews, a three-decker pulpit and a fine rood-screen.

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A Tourmet dining experience

here are good decisions and bad decisions. In 1812 Napoleon decided that invading Russia was a good idea, but it actually led to his demise and exile. So when we were invited to try a Tourmet dining experience (yes tourmet !) I thought is ‘This my Napoleon moment?’ Three pretty South Derbyshire towns, three country style pubs with restaurants, three courses of food and all in one evening.

Now that’s what you call a gourmet, tourmet challenge.

Saturday night and we embarked early evening on this, a dining review like no other. And what theme linked these three events?

Each venue is owned and run by Bespoke Inns, a talented group of entrepreneurs in the catering industry.

We began in Melbourne at Harpur’s, situated in the centre of Melbourne and built in the traditional dark red brick of the area about 150 years ago. Recently refurbished it’s style is light, modern and quirky with plenty of areas to just sit and enjoy a drink ( but more of that later).

carte menu and a more traditional bar menu and we chose a dish from each. My husband’s minted lamb pie sat on a bed of the smoothest mash potatoes, the meat was rich and deep in flavour and just fell apart. With a side dish of mixed summer vegetables, it was far from standard pub fayre.

We were booked in for 6:30pm and dined in the vaulted restaurant upstairs where after consideration we chose 4 ‘small plates’ to share tapas style. The menu has lovely variety and we enjoyed the small warm salmon tacos with honey and lime, lovely diced warm halloumi, spiced Bombay potatoes and chicken bites in a crispy corn coating with complementing dips. Unhurried, we chatted leisurely until it was time to move on to our next destination, The Boot Inn. A seventeenth century coaching inn in the pretty town of Repton, The Boot has recently under gone changes to expand the ever popular dining areas and now includes a spacious conservatory designed in keeping with the era of the building but with the Bespoke Inns signature contemporary style. There is both an a la

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The description of Cornish Hake was sheer poetry. Lightly pan fried its deep white flesh was moist and delicate, underneath were small muscles surrounded by the bright green of basil and courgette purée.

I really loved the sweet young peas, beans and miniature grilled courgettes and scattering of grilled gnocchi. This restaurant rightly

deserves its food awards and is currently a national finalist in The Best Inn category – 2019 Great British Pub Awards On to our next venue and a short ride brought us to the Dragon at Willington. Set along the canal banks, the characterful pub was buzzing on this warm summer evening. We sat in the bay window to enjoy our desserts where to my surprise my husband ordered the Jamaican ginger pudding, but it was so moist and so light I was quite envious. However not having quite such a voracious appetite the raspberry sorbet with elderflower gin jelly was my choice. The granola added texture to the mouse, and it was great as a fresh way to end a meal.

The beer also deserves a special mention. Bespoke own and brew their own quality beer at the Boot Brewery in Repton which each

Rosette Award for Culinary Excellence

inn has on tap, so we were assured of a good pint. The only problem was which one? In the end I decided on Boot bitter which at 4.3% went down nicely. Well as it says it’s “Good for The Sole”. I wish I’d have thought of that tag line. If you prefer something a bit stronger there’s Boot Beast at 6.6% and a variety of others in between.

Strategic planning ensured that by the time we got to the Dragon for dessert I could have a coffee too. Over the past year The Boot Brewery has seen sales grow at a steady rate and is now looking to expand/move premises. More on that development next month.

Glad to say Napoleon ended up on the beautiful island of St. Helena. We ended up having a truly great and memorable experience, enhanced by the friendly, efficient and helpful staff. A good decision… no, actually a great decision.

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It’s always a worry when you try something a little different. At the time of writing this I’m just back from The Belvior Flower & Garden Festival; it’s interesting how, from year to year, the focus on gardening changes.

Currently the message is about well-being and the benefits of gardening to the mind and body; but all of the past messages are important. For example in the last few years it’s been about encouraging wildlife in to the garden. For me all the messages are one and the same.

When you introduce wildlife into your patch not only is it beneficial to the mind it also is for the garden.

I was asked at the show “Is it only buddleia I can plant to attract butterflies?”

If you just plant buddleia (butterfly bush) the butterflies have only got food for the flowering period of the plant.

There are so many great plants that flower from the end of February to the end of November which are a valuable food source. These include: verbena, buddleia, sedums, penstemens, leucanthemum, herbaceous lobelia, agapanthus, stoksia, Japanese anemone, crocosmia, potentilla, roses , summer flowering heathers, lavender, thyme, rosemary and many more.

All of these will also encourage bees into the garden and attract hoverflies and lacewings, which eat aphid larvae.

· Once onion tops start to die down the plants can be lifted. · If ready, pick your plums now. Be careful how you handle them as they can bruise. · Use netting on autumn fruiting raspberries and blackberries to protect them from birds. · Pick early fruiting varieties of apples now. · Feed fruit trees and bushes with liquid sulphate of potash; such as a tomato feed. This will work quickly especially if the leaves are looking very yellow. · Buy onion sets now for autumn planting. · Water celery and other crops regularly in hot, dry weather. · Veg to sow now include Swedes, spring cabbages, and beetroot for leaves, winter lettuces, radishes, coriander, and Japanese onions. · Sow green manure in any bare spaces in your plot.

In the Greenhouse: · Pick off any lower leaves of tomatoes so air and light can reach the fruit and water regularly to help prevent fruit splitting or blossom end rot. · If it’s started to get warmer, look out for signs of red spider mite and treat with a systemic insecticide right away. · Thin out weaker looking bunches of indoor grapes. · Keep a look out for vine weevil beetles – usually

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General Garden Maintenance: · Carry on feeding lawns with a suitable fertiliser and moss killer. · Keep mowing the lawn regularly, and with the heavy rain fall of last month remember to keep spiking and sanding the lawn. · Remember to water newly planted trees and shrubs well if there is a lack of rain. · Feed any established trees and shrubs with a suitable granular fertiliser. · Check roses for signs of black spot, take off leaves and treat with fungicide. Remember don’t compost any diseased leaves always put them in the garden waste bin. · Apply bark mulches around newly planted or established trees and shrubs to help suppress weeds. · Top up bird baths regularly with fresh water. · If available in your local garden centre or plant nursery, plant any spring flowering bulbs now. · After heavy rain some summer bedding will look very tired – dig these up and put them in your compost heap.

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Buddleia davidii ‘Adonis Blue’ Okay! Yes, another blue flowering plant, of course you can choose any colour but it’s important to try to encourage wildlife into the garden and with buddleia not only does this attract butterflies but also bees, hoverflies, ladybirds and lacewings.

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ozing confidence, charm and charisma,

Julia Watson saunters around a church she’s known for many years, entertaining a rapt crowd with tales of her career and reciting some of literature’s greatest lines. It’s obvious that she was cut out to be on stage and it’s no surprise later when she tells me “I love acting”.

Julia joined Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company, working backstage and being cast in small roles before at the age of 16 she got the part of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

Brought up in Derby and introduced to the theatre at an early age, Julia is best known for playing Barbara “Baz” Wilder in the BBC medical drama Casualty, a role she returned to on a couple of occasions.

But as she demonstrates when appearing at All Saints Church, Mackworth village, she’s a talented all-rounder who completely inhabits a character – including Margaret Thatcher who she played in a theatrical production in 2017.

A couple of days later Julia spoke to me from her home in Barnes, south west London about how she loved her time with Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company, why she became a fire-eater and how questions were asked about Baz in Parliament after she was featured on the front page of the Sunday Times.

She revealed that she wasn’t desperate to play Baz and told her agent she wasn’t sure if she wanted to be in a medical drama. Her agent replied: “Brenda Fricker and Derek Thompson are in it. You just do it. It’s going to be very high profile.”

When talking about her career, Julia often uses the phrases “great fun” and “happy time”. That’s how she describes Casualty.

“Originally it was only supposed to be 15 episodes.

It’s extraordinary to think it’s still going. I did the first series and then I was offered something else and decided I didn’t want to stay. I was a junior doctor and junior doctors move on, so I would have had to move to another part of the hospital

and come back as a love interest with Charlie (Fairhead) and I didn’t want to do that.”

Nine years later Julia was asked to return to the series and her relationship with Charlie grew. “I came back two or three times. It was a very happy time, actually. It was great fun to work on.”

So how much of Julia was there in Baz? “In a sense those kind of parts on television are about personality acting, I always think. You’re cast for who you are. So of course there’s an element of you within that character. You just have to be careful not to say ‘I don’t think my character would do this’ because it’s actually not you. But there is a point when you’ve played her for so long you start to know her almost better than some of the scriptwriters because they don’t know the back story like you do. She was huge fun to play because in the first series she wasn’t very competent at her job. She was popping pills to keep going and getting drunk.

“I ended up on the front page of the Sunday Times and there were questions asked in Parliament about how the NHS and a junior doctor could be portrayed in that way. But of course they’d done their research and it was all accurate. Charlie knew much more about everything than Baz did.

And yet she was in charge of him. There were interesting hierarchies that the first series explored very well.”

The storyline in which Baz had an affair with Charlie Fairhead provoked some strong reactions from viewers, including nasty letters disapproving of the way Baz behaved.

“Charlie is a national treasure,” says Julia. “If Baz wasn’t treating Charlie very well I used to get it in the neck when I bumped into people. But I’d say ‘it’s not me, it’s a character’.”

Eventually Julia left the series in 2004 when Baz was killed in a car crash.

“I thought there was a limit to how many times I could come back,” she says. “We’d done everything.

Charlie and I had been married, divorced, married to other people – there wasn’t really any further for the storyline to go.”

She confesses it might have been a bad decision because the casting director of the spin-off series Holby City said if she hadn’t been killed, she could have worked on that programme.

“But I never wanted to be a long-running character. I’ve always liked variety and to do stage as well as television. So I thought it was time to leave Casualty.”

She also admits there was pressure from her husband, writer David Harsent, and her daughter Hannah to give up Casualty because they hardly

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Julia Watson’s many stage roles have included (opposite page) Tosca’s Kiss, (left) Tennessee Williams’ A Lovely Sunday for Crewe Coeur and (below) Chekhov’s The Seagull. saw her as she was away filming in Bristol for ten months of the year.

“Although I would have two days off a week, sometimes they weren’t concurrent, so I spent my life on the motorway just driving back and forth.

David said ‘this just isn’t working – either you’re part of this family or you’re not’. By that time I was playing consultant head of department so I was in every episode. It became hard and I felt I was missing out on Hannah’s life. This profession is never easy when you’ve got children.”

Julia Watson was born on 13 September 1953 in a small village in south Wales. Her father moved to Derby to work at Rolls-Royce when Julia was a baby. She says she had a very happy childhood.

“We were perfectly placed. We were only 60 miles from Stratford. My father was passionate about Shakespeare so from the age of eight I saw virtually every play in every season. And there was lots of amateur theatre in Derby. There was lots to keep me occupied.”

She joined Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company, working backstage and being cast in small roles before at the age of 16 she got the part of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet.

“It was a very happy time. I loved my time at Derby Shakespeare Society. It was wonderful to be around people who were so passionate about theatre and about Shakespeare too. I learned a lot by watching. There were some wonderful actors like Jessica Clewes and (the late) Ken Pipes – great role models.”

She was unable to get a grant to go to drama school, so she read drama at Exeter University.

Three days before her finals she was in London auditioning for a couple of jobs and got one of them, helping to set up a community theatre in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne.

“It was a baptism of fire but I learned a lot,” says Julia. “I learned to fire-eat amongst other things because I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t dance and I couldn’t play an instrument so I wasn’t sure how useful I was to them in a community theatre. So I thought if I learn to fire-eat I’ll have a skill that nobody else has. I used it quite a lot over the years but I’ve decided my fire-eating days are now over.”

Julia then joined the Roundabout theatre-ineducation company at Nottingham Playhouse.

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A quiet back lane runs between grazing on one side and mixed rhododendron and scrub woodland. At a sharp left-hand turn, the way is forward, past the remains of three of the many gritstone quarries once active around this Matlock hillside. A sharp descent leads down to the top of Lumsdale and the silted remains of the upper reservoir where the penned-up waters of Bentley Brook waited to power small mills in the lower valley.

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1. From the car park opposite Highfields School, walk up to the main road and turn left. (Or walk to this point if parking in the layby opposite Matlock Golf Club).

2. Cross over and follow the pavement for about 200 yards in order to reach Sandy Lane which will be on your right, pointing away from the main road.

3. Turn right along Sandy Lane and follow it until its surfaced part turns left.

6. When Cuckoostone House comes into view, go half right, leaving the access lane and go through a narrow wooden gate.

7. A walled path descends towards the golf course where the Cuckoostone stands proud. A right of way crosses the links at this point, but for safety’s sake it is not recommended without a hard hat!

8. Follow the gently descending path, through a muddy section as far as Bentley Brook.

9. Cross the stream by a footbridge and then at a stile to bear left to start the short climb up the opposite hillside.

As the name suggests, Packhorse Farm is on the line of an ancient way carrying salt into South Yorkshire, or lead ore to upland smelters. The farm would have doubled as a resting place for pack animals after their arduous climb out of the Derwent Valley.

11. Follow the rough lane for a little under a mile, high above the golf course on your right and the mature trees of Bottom Wood forestry plantation to your left.

12. Go through the gate next to a house and continue forwards, now along a surfaced way.

19. Follow the drive away from the farm as far as the crossing of minor upland lanes.

As you walk along Cuckoostone Lane, pause now and then to admire the view down the Derwent Valley. John Smedley’s Riber Castle dominates the near skyline with Crich Stand over to its left.

4. Continue forwards, climbing steadily uphill on a rough surfaced lane, going to the right with it on reaching Sandy Lane Farm.

5. Follow this now the highest part of the walk, for about half a mile between grazed fields on your right and rough woodland and long abandoned quarries to your left.

18. Beyond the second stile, bear slightly right towards a stile a finger post pointing back along the drive towards Packhorse Farm.

10. Go through a stile at the corner of a stone wall in order to climb steeply up to unmade Cuckoostone Lane, and turn right.

20. Turn sharp right and follow the arrowstraight lane for about half a mile, past two houses on your left and rhododendrons mixed with scrub woodland to the left and right.

13. On reaching the main road, turn left and follow the pavement for about 150 yards as far as a bus stop sign.

21. Where the lane makes a sharp ninety degree left hand turn, go forwards through a squeezer stile.

14. Cross over and go down the access lane to Wayside Farm.

15. Skirting the farmyard, go through two adjacent field gates in order to follow the line of a dry-stone wall on your left.

16. Go through a stile at the end of the field and cross the next field.

17. Aim towards a stone house, passing it on your left and then go through a squeezer stile.

22. Follow a heather-clad path around the remains of three long-abandoned quarries until the path begins to descend.

23. Follow this frequently muddy path, steeply downhill, across the remains of a dam and the silted relic of the upper reservoir in the Lumsdale series of the ponds that once powered local industry.

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

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

Charity Art Sale & Auction Derbyshire Agricultural Chaplaincy is pleased to announce its 3rd annual charity art sale and auction. It will take place on Monday 29th July from 9.30am until 2pm at the Bakewell Agricultural Centre. The art sale and auction raises money for Macmillan Cancer Support and the Rural Agricultural Benevolent Institute (RABI). These two charities were chosen as they had supported a local family who had sadly lost a much loved wife and mum to cancer. The Derbyshire Agricultural Chaplaincy organised the successful first event which is now in its third year. The two featured artists this year are Lesley Griggs and Felicity Jackson, both local Derbyshire artists who are delighted to support this great event. More information can be found on the RAD website ruralactionderbyshire.org.uk/Event.

Folk And Acoustic Music The Lion Hotel, Bridge Street, Belper is hosting an evening with the Derbyshire Volunteers on Thursday, 12 September at 8pm.

It’s Derbyshire’s own big folk band playing jigs, reels and songs in the good old fashioned way with fifteen or so, musicians from the local folk scene playing an eclectic mix of instruments, concertinas, melodeons, keyboards, fiddles, percussion, guitars, bass, ukuleles and a brass section with a good few vocals thrown in for good measure, plus a few special guests.

Admission is free with donations for local charities, gratefully received. The evening

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So come and join us if you can. Loads of parking in Field Lane Car Park DE56 1DD. Heanor Floral Art Group August 19th flower demonstration by June Borrowdale from Worksop entitled Spread the Joy. 7oclock. Venue The Wilmot Street Welfare Centre, Heanor. Everyone welcome, visitors £5.

For further details Telephone 01332-880179 .

Hydrangea Derby Hydrangea Derby is the largest collection (834) of Hydrangeas in the UK and can be found near the Terrace Café in Darley Park, Derby. It is owned by Derby City Council but maintained by an enthusiastic and diverse group of volunteers and partner organisations.

The Walled Garden is open now until late October for free public viewing and we invite you to our: Open Day Sunday, 4 August 2019 10.30am to 3pm. Free conducted tours of the collection at:11am and 2pm. Meet at the Terrace Café (no need to book) www. hydrangeaderby.co.uk Little Chester Heritage Centre St. Paul’s Church, Mansfield Road, Derby.

On Sunday August 4th 2-4p.m. You would be very welcome to have a further inspection of our Arthur Barlow Collection, and hear a further talk about this remarkable man. Free admission. Refreshments available. For further information Tel. 01332 363354.

Allestree Flower Group Tuesday 20th August 2019. Practice night and supper. 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 New Season at Music at Duffield The first concert of the new season is a piano recital by Maxim Kinasov on Saturday

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October 5th and the season continues with performances from Richard Jenkinson and Tom Corfield both of whom have strong local connections. Richard Jenkinson was a student at Ecclesbourne School and Tom Corfield spent many years as Assistant Organist at Derby Cathedral. All the concerts in this coming season will be held in St Alkmund’s Church, Duffield on Saturday evenings at 7.30 and season tickets are available. A season ticket enables the holder to attend all six concerts for the price of four and is great value. Pick up a brochure from Duffield Library or St Alkmund’s Church and apply before August 31st for an extra discount!

Further details are available via our website www.musicatduffield.com.

Spondon Historical Society Next meeting until September 9th.’ Details will be in September edition Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Club Woodcraft Club meets in Wyaston village hall (DE6 2DR) on the first Saturday of each month from 10:00am to 2:00pm. We have a mixed programme of visiting demonstrators, hands-on sessions under the guidance of more experienced members and a monthly competition.

3rd. August - this month we welcome professional woodturner Brian Cockerill from Oadby.

7th. September - this is a hands-on meeting.

Come along and try a new craft. First visit and refreshments are free.

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

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

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

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

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

July 19th Challenge Night. An evening of puzzle type challenges with prizes to be won 7 pm. Teams of up to four £7 per person includes light refreshments – bar available.

July 20th Afternoon Walk. Wirksworth from the skyline – guided longer walk 12.30pm £4 pre-booked sandwiches also available.

July 27th Basic Woodwork Workshop. Pen making with the Derbyshire Dales Woodcraft Folk 10am £25 per person for ages 11+.

Grand Hotel - The Musical

Buxton Opera House Thursday 22 – Saturday 24 August

Present Company, now celebrating 30 years of performing at Buxton Opera House, revives the Tony Award winning 1989 musical Grand Hotel which, now in 2019, celebrates 30 years of thrilling audiences since the Broadway premiere of a run lasting more than 1,000 performances.

Come to the Grand Hotel, Berlin, in 1928. Hearts are won, lives are lost or begun and the music never stops for a grand parade of guests and staff whose worlds briefly inter-twine. Among the eccentric hotel guests are: a cynical doctor, who observes all; a fading prima ballerina; a fatally ill Jewish bookkeeper, spending his final days in luxury; a baron, young, handsome, noble and broke; an honest businessman forced to turn crooked and a typist dreaming of Hollywood success.

One man. Two Guvnors.

Derby Theatre Saturday 7 September 2019 Saturday 28 September 2019

Richard Bean’s smash-hit comedy premieres in Derby for a limited run this Autumn. Directed by Sarah Brigham, featuring a side-splitting mix of slapstick comedy, farce and live music by a talented skiffle band, One Man, Two Guvnors is one great night out. After being fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall is skint and hungry. He manages to secure a new job as a minder for small time gangster Roscoe Crabbe.

What Francis doesn’t know, is his new guvnor is really Roscoe’s sister Rachel in disguise, as her own dead brother, who has been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers. To further complicate things, Francis nabs a second job working for that very Stanley Stubbers who is hiding from the police. All Francis has to do is ensure his two guvnors don’t meet. What could go wrong?

Jasper Carrott's Stand Up & Rock Mansfield Palace Theatre 9 September, 19 September

Comedy Highfield Productions Ltd The 2019 tour will see the legendary Jasper Carrott back with a new stand up show alongside his musical compatriots, the Bev Bevan Band that have been ‘rockin’ audiences all over the world. As well as being Jasper's mate, Bev is founding member of The Move and ELO and has one of the finest band’s around with special guests including 60s star Geoff Turton from the Rockin’ Berries.

This unique show gives the opportunity to see and hear great artistes belting out a night of classic songs and Jasper back where he belongs... making us laugh!

Prism starring Robert Lindsay

Theatre Royal Nottingham Monday 21 October - Saturday 26 October

Drama Following a sold-out run at London’s Hampstead Theatre.

Don’t miss the astonishing true story of the man who made Hollywood’s greatest divas beautiful. Robert Lindsay is ‘magnetic’ (The Guardian), ‘perfect’ (The Times) and ‘glorious’ (Mail on Sunday) in Terry Johnson’s delightfully witty and poignant play based on the extraordinary life of double Oscar-winning cinematic master Jack Cardiff; ‘the man who made women look beautiful’ (Vanity Fair).

The legendary Jack Cardiff has retired to the sleepy village of Denham, Buckinghamshire. His days of hard work – and play – on some of the most famous film sets in the world are now long behind him.

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24th - 26th AUGUST VICTORIAN TRAIN WEEKEND A very warm welcome to the Midland Railway – Butterley A great day out for all of the family with loads to see and do. Heritage train rides transport you to a bygone era. Explore two railway museums, the demonstration signal box, a Victorian railwayman’s church and much more. Plus there are narrow gauge, miniature and model railways, shops, buffets, children’s playground and country park. Free parking.

Midland Railway Butterley Butterley Station, Ripley, Derbyshire, DE5 3QZ T: 01773 570140 www.midlandrailway-butterley.co.uk

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f you want to encourage the children to experience the great outdoors, Crich Tramway Village offers a great family day out, where you can step back in time. We also welcome your dog! Historic trams run down a period street and out into the surrounding Derbyshire countryside, providing breathtaking views. Experience the fascinating Woodland Walk and Sculpture Trail, visit the Red Lion Pub and Tearooms, and explore the interesting exhibitions. The Workshop Viewing Gallery invites you to see our expert craftsmen maintain and refurbish the collection of vintage trams.

August brings a variety of events at Crich Tramway Village, with something for everyone. Craft activities, involving ‘Make-do-and-Mend’ in preparation for the World War II event will keep families busy between 5th and 9th August.

Discovery Week from 12th to 16th August is a great opportunity for families to get involved with history and science-based fun activities. Horse Tram Day sees the return of Joseph, the popular Shire horse, to pull the Sheffield 15 horse tram between 11am and 4pm on Wednesday 14th August. Rides on the horse tram cost £1.00 per person.

If you’re a model tram and railway fan, then Models Weekend is a must on Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th August. Marvel at the exhibitions of the models in the indoor exhibition areas.

Woodland Week from 19th – 23rd August will play host to eco and wildlifebased activities for all the family to enjoy. The Classic Transport Gathering on Sunday 25th and Monday 26th August welcomes classic vehicles built prior to 1979. If you are interested in displaying a vehicle, you can download the booking form on the website: www.tramway.co.uk/whatson/classic-transportgathering-3/ and return it by 2nd August.

The month ends with ‘Back to School’ craft activities from 27th to 30th August, ensuring the children will be well prepared for the new school term.

Visit the website for the full list of special events. Full priced tickets offer free return within 12 months (subject to opening dates and excluding World War II events). Open daily at 10am until Sunday 3rd November 2019. For more details, event and closing times 01773 854321 or visit www.tramway.co.uk.

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light aircraft flying over Derbyshire gives you an unobstructed grandstand view of the fabulous natural environment in which we live. Experience the joy and excitement of flying, soaring above the beautiful Derbyshire countryside.

Take a bird’s eye view of your favourite landmarks – maybe it’s Carsington Water reservoir, Dovedale, Froggatt Edge, Chatsworth House, Ladybower dams or your own home area. Taking hold of the flying controls, you can really experience the freedom of flying.

Derby Aero Club offers a wide range of flying services including tuition for the private pilots licence. Flying from its home base at Derby Airfield, Egginton, the club caters for all ages. Recently a number of our younger students have achieved their first solo flight at the youngest legal age of 16.

Derby Airfield is also the home of the Comet Racer restoration project. A team of volunteers are working hard restoring the Comet Racer G-ACSP that was originally flown by Amy Johnson and husband Jim Mollison in 1934, in the air race from England to Australia.

Why not come along to the airfield on a fine day and sit with a cup of tea, watching the aeroplanes come and go, or purchase a ‘trial lesson’ as a gift for someone special or even for yourself ? A trial flying lesson makes an ideal present, gift vouchers are available from the Derby Aero Club.

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he 88th Ashover Show will be held on Wednesday 14 August 2019. The Show is very proud of its reputation as one of the finest traditional agricultural shows in the country which regularly welcomes over 14,000 visitors. This year the Centre Ring will have entertainment throughout the day starting with the arrival of the President, Mr Fred Hall at 9.30am followed by the Barlow Red Barrows, The Guide Dogs for the Blind display, The Sheep Grand National, the very popular parade of hounds by the Four Shires Blood Hounds and The Barlow Hunt, the heavy horse classes, private driving, The Grand Parade, fancy dress and ending the day with the tug of war. The BSJA show jumping will take place in the Light Horse Rings with a viewing both from the Members enclosure and the new marquee gallery at the top of the ring.

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The Livestock Grand Parade will take place in the Centre Ring. Champion shire horses, cattle and sheep will parade around the ring with their colourful sashes and rosettes.

The light horse section will run throughout the day. Championships from the local Ashover Riding Club will be held for horses and riders who have qualified at the club shows through the season, full details are on the Facebook page. There will also be the junior handler classes which have proved very popular since their introduction. Of course the highlight will be the fancy dress class which will be judged by the President, in the Centre Ring. There will be both affiliated BSJA and unaffiliated show jumping along with the traditional local classes so there really is something for everyone.

The poultry section continues to grow and will host the ever expanding number of classes in what is an extremely colourful display. Next door will be the very popular dog show with classes for both pedigree and non-pedigree dogs. The

crowds will be entertained by the Animal Magic Dog Display Team who will be performing in the ring throughout the morning in the lead up to the start of the dog show.

The Vintage Tractor ring will showcase around 150 of the very best local vehicles along with a vintage car display, which is kindly put on by a local vintage owners club to create what is always a popular and stunning display. Visitors will be able to relax in the ‘Village Green’ area whilst listening to the Ashover Brass Band. The children can watch the traditional Punch and Judy Show or pay a visit to the popular rides and slides area.

The Horticulture Marquee is a must for visitors with its absolutely stunning displays which just get better every year, as does the appetising Ashover Marquee which will have over 30 of the very best of local food producers from around the area. A visit to the Craft Marquee is also not to be missed with over 50 exhibitors displaying the fantastic range of local talent on show.

Out on the showground there will be approximately 200 trade stands, selling everything from farm machinery to bird tables, there really is something to interest everyone! When visitors have looked around everything the Show has to offer, they can simply sit and relax at one of the many and varied food outlets around the ground. Car parks surround the show ground and parking is free. This year traffic will be managed by a specialist team employed to ensure that cars can quickly and easily access the car parks and queuing is kept to a minimum. For up to date information and all of the contact details plus class schedules, please visit www.ashovershow.co.uk. Advance tickets and programmes are available to purchase on line at a reduced price to those on the day and we very much look forward to seeing you.

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INGREDIENTS: 4 eggs 150g golden caster sugar 300ml sunflower oil 2 medium-large carrots, peeled and finely grated 300g wholemeal self-raising flour ½ tsp salt ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda 40g walnuts 20g sultanas Juice of one orange

FOR THE ICING (OPTIONAL) 125g unsalted butter, softened 250g cream cheese Finely grated zest of 1 orange (reserve some for decoration) 50g-100g icing sugar, or to taste, sieved A few walnuts

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he Land Cruiser has impressed ever since it climbed Mount Fuji more than 60 years ago. Today, the new Land Cruiser is just as relentless with more advance on-and off-road technologies, more safety features and more powerful performance to tackle even the roughest terrain.The Land Cruiser is powered by a 2.8 l D-4D turbo diesel with a choice of manual or automatic transmission. The 2.8 D-4D engine features an electronically controlled, common-rail type fuel injection system that achieves higher pressure and more advanced injection pressure control. Available in automatic variant, the 2.8 D-4D engine can be combined with a 6-speed Super intelligent Electronically Controlled automatic transmission (6 Super ECT) which benefits from several control systems designed to improve both fuel economy and driving performance.

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Toyota Land Cruiser An off-road pedigree With an off-road heritage spanning more than 65 years, Toyota land Cruiser retains its ability to combine outstanding quality, durability and reliability with amazing offroad performance and even greater levels of luxury, prestige and on-road comfort. In the toughest situations, Land Cruiser has a proven history of giving you the versatility and power you need without neglecting your comfort. the spacious cabin and versatility to match your needs. Choose between 5 or 7-seat options for a vehicle that adapts to changing conditions and individual requirements.

On-board comfort Land Cruiser’s functionality, craftsmanship and attention to detail ensures a rewarding journey. On-board comfort has been enhanced and the Icon and Invincible models offer front-seat and rearpassenger ventilation and triple-zone automatic air conditioning.

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Towing your equipment, avoiding potholes, battling rain, snow and ice – no other SUV can offer the Land Cruiser’s unique combination of on-road dynamics and off-road performance. It is equipped with a Drive Mode Select System, an electronically modulated Kinetic Dynamic Suspension System (KDSS), which optimises the effect of the front and rear stabilisers for enhanced on-road performance - you are ready for whatever lies ahead!

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Model shown is Land Cruiser Icon 5 dr 2.8 D-4D Auto. Official fuel consumption figures in mpg (1/lOOkm): combined 27 .3 (10.3)-30.1 (9.36). Combined C02 201 g/km.

Figures are provided for comparability purposes; only compare fuel consumption and C02 figures with other cars tested to the same technical procedures. These figures may not reflect real life driving results. Fuel consumption and C02 produced varies significantly depending on a number of factors, including the accessories fitted (postregistration), driving style, conditions, speed and vehicle load. All models and grades are certified according to the World Harmonised Light Vehicle Test Procedure (WLTP), which replaces the New European Driving Cycle test procedure (NEDC). All C02 figures quoted are NEDC equivalent. This means the C02 figures are based on the new WLTP test procedure but calculated (using a standard European calculation method) to allow comparison with the NEDC test procedure and will be used to calculate vehicle tax on first registration.

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