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Community Diary February / March 2023

February:

1st: Belper Historical Society: ‘The Life and Work of a Master Thatcher’ by David Wood. 7:30pm Strutts Community Centre, Derby Road. Members free, visitors £5. 7th: The Arts Society Derby lecture “160 years of London Underground Design and Architecture” Landau Forte College, Derby, 7pm. Guests welcome £6 (free parking onsite). More info: theartssocietyderby.com 9th – 11th: ‘Puss in Wellies’ – a panto for all the family at Christ Church, The Triangle, Belper DE56 1BA. 7.30pm each evening plus matinee 2.30pm Saturday 11th. Tickets £5 (£3 for primary school aged children). Light refreshments included. Tickets: 01773 824974 / 07813 710028 or on the door. 11th: Belper Organ and Keyboard Club concert: Leigh Wilbraham. 2pm, Congregational Church, Church Walk, Belper DE56 1DB. £6 members, £8 visitors. Refreshments available. www.belperorganclub.com 11th: Derby German Group’s ‘Kaffe und Kunchen’ 3pm at Carnero Lounge, 10 St Peter’s Street, Derby DE1 1SH. New members welcome. Basic understanding of German helpful. Info: derbygermangroup.wordpress.com, email: derbygermangroup@gmail.com 21st – 25th: Belper Musical Theatre presents: The Wedding Singer! Tuesday - Friday 7.30pm; Saturday 1.30pm & 6.30pm at Belper Community Theatre, Belper School, John O’Gaunts Way. Tickets from £13 from www.belpermusicaltheatre.co.uk

March:

1st: Belper Historical Society: ‘The Evans family – their local, national and international influence’ by Katherine Everitt. 7:30pm Strutts Community Centre, Derby Road. Members free, visitors £5. 4th: The Sitwell Singers: Come and sing Duruflé’s Requiem 10am – 5pm (informal performance at 4pm), St Peter’s Church, Belper DE56 1FD. Tickets £20, buffet lunch £5. Tickets: www.sitwellsingers.org.uk or barry@watlings.org.uk. 11th: Belper Organ and Keyboard Club concert: David Thomas. 2pm, Congregational Church, Church Walk, Belper DE56 1DB. £6 members, £8 visitors. Refreshments available. www.belperorganclub.com 11th: Derby German Group’s ‘Kaffe und Kunchen’ 3pm at Carnero Lounge, 10 St Peter’s Street, Derby DE1 1SH. New members welcome. Basic understanding of German helpful. Info: derbygermangroup.wordpress.com, email: derbygermangroup@gmail.com 16th: Language Soirée 7-9pm at No.28 Market Place, Belper DE56 1FZ. Conversation in a different language at each table. All welcome from native speakers to students and complete beginners. All languages welcome. £6 on the door (no booking req’d). BYO drinks & language-themed nibbles.

Please check events with the venue/organiser as the publisher accepts no responsibility if events are changed/cancelled following publication. If you have a one-off event or special excursion for April / May 2023 please email it to helen@allthingslocal.co.uk. Deadline is Wednesday 22nd February 2022.

Friendship Blooms

Show your appreciation for a fellow member of the community; it may be a friend, a family member or maybe someone you’ve come into contact with who provides a wonderful service or who works hard to make a difference. Let All Things Local surprise them with a fresh bouquet of flowers.

Rachael Collins from Fleur Florist

All Things Local has joined forces with Rachael Collins (pictured) from Fleur Florist of King Street, Belper to offer readers the chance to show their appreciation for a fellow member of the community.

The recipients of this issue’s bouquet are Lucy Cartwright and her mother Marcia Watson from Kilburn. They were nominated by Rose Knox who is also from Kilburn. Here’s what she wrote:

“I would like to nominate my neighbours Lucy Cartwright and her mother Marcia Watson. They’ve helped us such a lot during my husband George’s illness without being asked and it’s nice to know there’s someone keeping us safe. Lucy is so busy with work, 3 children and her dancing and yet she always makes sure we are OK. Marcia took George to the surgery a few weeks ago and one of the doctors wasn’t there, so she waited for George in the car park for 1 ½ hours. They both really deserve a bouquet to say a big thank you and to let them know their help is appreciated.”

Rose Knox.

Nominate someone to receive the next bouquet.

All you have to do is state, in no more than 100 words, who you are nominating. Include their address and the reasons why you are nominating them. You can nominate more than one person if they are living/ working at the same address… and remember, flowers don’t just have to be for women!

The only rule is that the person receiving the flowers must live or work in the distribution area of All Things Local Village Edition (listed on front cover). Just write your nomination on a piece of paper and send to Friendship Blooms, All Things Local, 74 Woodhouse Road, Kilburn, Belper, Derbyshire DE56 0NA or e-mail your nomination to karyn@allthingslocal.co.uk putting ‘Friendship Blooms’ as the subject. Please include your full name, address and daytime telephone number on your nomination.

Marcia Watson (left) & Lucy Cartwright (centre) with their beautiful bouquet presented by Rose Knox.

Closing date for nominations for the next issue is Wednesday 22 February 2023.

All nominations are kept on file and you will be contacted if your nomination has been selected. Contact information is only used by All Things Local; no information is given to any third party.

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Community Local History

Belper People of the Past: Matilda Pullein and Thomas Godbehere

Godbehere as a surname may have medieval origins. One theory is that it started as a nickname for someone who regularly used “God be here!” as an expression of annoyance or frustration. Another theory is that it means ‘bright God’. Variations include Godber, Godbert and Godbet. In the nineteenth century the name was found predominantly in Derbyshire, Cheshire and Yorkshire.

During my strolls in Belper Cemetery my attention was caught by an unusual name on an old grave. I looked up Matilda and Thomas Godbehere and discovered that they had an interesting story.

Matilda was born in Sneinton, Nottingham in 1831 to Thomas and Sarah Pullein, one of seven children. Her father was a lace maker from Gloucester and her mother was a Nottingham girl. In 1841 they lived in Chilwell. Ten years later Matilda worked as a cap maker, lodging with a family on Woolpack Lane in the heart of the lace-making industry. It is not clear why the Census describes her and another woman as ‘inmates’ as Census enumerators normally used the term ‘lodger’, but not in this instance.

In any case, she had a great change of fortune in 1855 when she married Thomas Godbehere and they set up home with his widowed mother Sarah on The Scotches. Thomas Henry is described in the Census variously as book-keeper, cashier or accountant at Strutts Cotton Mill during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

His parents Thomas and Sarah had married in Middleton-by-Wirksworth in 1815 and settled in Belper where Thomas was born in 1824.

Matilda became a full-time housewife and mother, but tragically the couple lost three of their four sons. The first son Albert Henry died at the age of 29 of unknown causes. Their second son William Frederick died in infancy and their third son was named after him, the only one to live a long life. Last came George Edward who died of concussion at the age of seven after he had a fall and hit his head while out playing. It is hard to imagine the suffering and grief felt by Thomas and Matilda, but they would have rejoiced in the success of William Frederick who emigrated to Australia, where he worked as a commercial traveller. He also became a successful composer and organist and in 1899 the Belper News described him as “the son of a well-known and respected cashier of Messrs W G and J Strutt … had given promise of becoming more than an ordinary musician but was ordered away from Belper for his health”. His performance on the grand organ of Sydney Town Hall was proudly reported to Belper readers. The only surviving child of Matilda and Thomas, he died in 1935 in New South Wales at the age of 68.

I did not discover if he ever came back to see his parents. His father Thomas died in 1902 leaving an estate of £1,469.11s.9d and Matilda survived him by three years. Although far away in Australia, William Frederick commissioned the grave in Belper Cemetery to commemorate his grandmother, parents and brothers. It is neglected now, as there is probably no-one left to look after it, but there has recently been an excellent clean-up of this area by volunteers from Belper & Duffield Rotary Club. Anyone who cares to seek out the grave will find it on the left of the uphill path to the right of the funeral chapels. It’s a large but modest memorial to the Godbehere family.

The Godbehere grave in Belper Cemetery

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Upbeat

Keep up to date with the latest police messages and advice: your local police officers are using Derbyshire Alert to share fraud prevention advice, as well as other updates.

Derbyshire Alert is our community messaging system, where you can receive updates from your Safer Neighbourhood Teams. You can sign up by visiting www.derbyshirealert.co.uk.

The following was sent by PCSO Gregory after an increase in frauds reported locally.

Ten golden rules to prevent fraud

Remember these ten golden rules to help you prevent fraud and beat the scammers.

1. Be suspicious of all ‘too good to be true’ offers and deals. There are no guaranteed get-rich-quick schemes.

2. Don’t agree to offers or deals immediately. Insist on time to get independent or legal advice before making a decision.

3. Don’t hand over money or sign anything until you’ve checked someone’s credentials and their company’s.

4. Never send money to anyone you don’t know or trust, whether in the UK or abroad, or use methods of payment you’re not comfortable with. 5. Never give banking or personal details to anyone you don’t know or trust. This information is valuable so make sure you protect it. 6. Always log on to a website directly rather than clicking on links in an email. 7. Don’t just rely on glowing testimonials. Find solid, independent evidence of a company’s success. 8. Always get independent or legal advice if an offer involves money, time or commitment. 9. If you spot a scam or have been scammed, report it and get help. 10. Don’t be embarrassed about reporting a scam. Because the scammers are cunning and clever there’s no shame in being deceived. By reporting it, you’ll make it more difficult for them to deceive others.

If you think you’ve been a victim of a scam report this to Action Fraud: www.actionfraud.police.uk. Contact the police if you know the suspect or they’re still in the area. Reporting crime, including fraud, is important. If you don’t tell the authorities, how do they know it’s happened and how can they do anything about it? Remember that if you’re a victim of a scam or an attempted scam, however minor, there may be hundreds or thousands of others in a similar position. Your information may form part of one big jigsaw and be vital to completing the picture.

Useful Numbers

Doctors & Hospitals, Emergencies

Appletree Medical Practice Arthur Medical Centre 01332 842288 01332 880249

Amber Pharmacy Crimestoppers

01332 985950 0800 555111 Drug Helpline (FRANK) 0300 1236600 London Road Community Hospital 01332 265500 NHS 111 Out of Hours (24 hour helpline) 111 Police (non emergency) 101 Ripley Hospital 01773 743456 Ripley Medical Centre 01773 303591 Riversdale Surgery 01773 822386 Royal Derby Hospital 01332 340131 RSPCA Emergency 0300 1234999 Samaritans (24 hour) 116123 Severn Trent Water 0800 7834444 Social Care Services - Call Derbyshire 01629 533190 Water Floodline 0345 9881188 Whitemoor Medical Centre 01773 880099

Post Offices

Belper (Strutt Street) 01773 820108 Duffield 01332 840105 Kilburn 01332 880444 Little Eaton 01332 832780 Sawmills 01773 852060 Smalley 01332 882222 Stanley 0345 7223344 Stanley Common 0345 6112970

Travel

Birmingham Airport 0871 222 0072 East Midlands Airport 0800 083 8759 East Midlands Trains 03457 125678 Manchester Airport 0808 1697030 National Rail Enquiries 03457 484950 Roads - to report a fault 01629 580000 Traveline – public transport info 0871 2002233

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Bereavement Matters

According to the latest Census, fewer people than ever before in the UK consider themselves to be Christian, with other faiths – or no faith at all – stepping into the breach.

How everyone views these matters is, of course, their own business and not for me to comment, but inevitably this shift in beliefs is something which affects our industry because of the nature of how we mark someone’s passing with their funeral service.

It is undoubtedly true that we do not arrange the number of Christian church funerals that we used to and many of those we still make the arrangements for are increasingly moving away from the traditional format.

For many families, however, just like with a wedding, a funeral outside a church doesn’t feel right, which is why they will opt for a religious setting, albeit with hymns and readings mixed in with contemporary secular music and poems.

But it’s in another part of the funeral mix where some of the bigger changes are happening, with an increasing number of families not only choosing not to involve a priest, but to have no form of formal service at all. This would have been unthinkable a few years ago, but in the past year we have arranged events whereby families and friends simply gather around their loved one’s coffin and chat and swap stories, to the background of some soft music and photos projected onto a screen.

The venue for this is invariably their local crematorium, where they are given an allotted half an hour and are free to do with it what they want, even if afterwards the deceased is taken away to be buried elsewhere.

I have spoken many times about how funerals are becoming more individualised and we are now finally at the stage where I can’t remember a funeral which didn’t have any form of personal touch at all.

Whether it’s a piece of music or photos, a favourite hat placed on the coffin or a half hour chat about the old days, funerals are as much about recognising the person as preparing them for their onward journey – wherever people believe that it is set to take them.

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Index

Accommodation: Shining Cliff Hostel Accountant: Easy Accounts Ltd Accountant: Yeomans Accountancy Ltd Aerials: Aerial Technology of Ripley Airport Transfers: Connect Cars

83 9 4 52 12 Airport Transfers: Holbrook Travel 14 Alterations & Dressmaking: The Duffield Dressmaker 13 Animal Welfare: The Cats Protection League 14 Architect: BDS Architecture 67

Bathrooms: Bathtime Heanor 58 Bathrooms: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms 65 Bathrooms: Browns Builders Merchants 44 Bathrooms: Paul M Longden 69 Bedrooms: Contour Furnishings 72 Builder’s Merchant/Landscaping Products: Browns 44 Building Work: 3Sixty Property Solutions 50 Building Work: Bennett Construction 61 Building Work: JJN Building Services 62 Building Work: Simon Owen Response 54 Building Work: TDB Builders 49

Car Body Repairs & Servicing: B A Kelf Car Body Repairs: ChipsAway Car Body Repairs: Martin Buxton

29 28 29 Car Key Replacement: Belper Car Keys 9 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: 20Ten Garage Services 27 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: Little Eaton Garage 28 Carer Services: Right at Home 84 Carpets & Flooring: Ian Wilson 56 Carpets & Flooring: Spondon Carpets 59 Carpets & Flooring: T Nutt & Sons 7 Cash for Jewellery, Watches etc 17 Chimney Sweep: Paul Fiddes 41 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: BHHDCS 60 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Janine Cleaning 60 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Molly Maid 60 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: The Cleaning Lady 13 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Time for You 61 Computer Support: Eaton PCs 9 Computer Support: PC Support 9 Computer Tuition: Computer Tutor for U 83 Conservatories, Windows, Doors: Abbey Glass 88

Dentist: Glendair Dental Practice

33 Dentures: Beautiful Dentures 34 Door Maintenance & Repair: Door Maintenance & Repair 46

Education: Derbyshire County Council Adult Education 77 Electrical Goods Retailer: Lester & Nix 6 Electrician: Andy Hill 54 Electrician: Devenport Electrical 50 Electrician: McPherson-Davis 46 Electrician: PAS Electrical 64 Electrician: TME Electrical 69

Fencing: ColourFence Financial Advice: Belper IFS Florist: Fleur Florist

48 10 78 Footcare: Nahele Holistics 32 Funeral Directors: Gillotts Funeral Services 85 Funeral Directors: Thomas Ryde & Son 83 Furniture Makers: Incite Interiors 40

Garage Doors: Garolla 52 Garage Doors: Ockbrook Garage Doors 50 Garden Heating & Furniture: Robeys 51 Garden Living: Cabin Master 3 Garden Services: Elements Solutions 57 Garden Services: Gardens of Wildlife 53 Garden Services: Lawns & Hedges 49 Garden Services: Pennine 39 Gutter Clearance: Gutter PRO 49

Home Improvements: Next Generation 87 Hotel: The Kedleston Country House 22 Hotel: Morley Hayes 23 Ironing Service: Perfectly Pressed 60

Joinery: Bethell’s Joinery Joinery: L Tansley Joinery: R&D Joinery

Kitchens: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms Kitchens: Dream Doors Kitchens: Holtams Kitchens: Paul M Longden 46 50 54

65 37 63 69

Landscaping: Mount Pleasant Landscaping 73 Log Supplies: Robeys 39

Massage: Equilibrium 33

Osteopath: Osteopathy Derby Oven Cleaning: Ovenclean 32 56

Painter & Decorator: Duffield Decorators Ltd 49 Painter & Decorator: John the Painter 64 Painter & Decorator: M Bates 72 Painter & Decorator: Roy Milner 37 Personal Trainer: Alex Robinson 31 Pest Control: MW Pest Control 53 Pet Care Services: The Pet Servant 14 Plastering: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 53 Plastering: McPherson-Davis 46 Plumbing & Heating: Blacks 53 Plumbing & Heating: CB 64 Plumbing & Heating: Dervale Maintenance 46 Plumbing & Heating: LEEVA Plumbing & Heating 71 Plumbing & Heating: Martyn Young Heating & Plumbing 68 Plumbing & Heating: MDA 39 Plumbing & Heating: R Fearn 52 Plumbing & Heating: Scott 54 Plumbing & Heating: Woodward 67 Properties Wanted for Cash: Ethical Property Partners 38 Property Maintenance: 3Sixty Property Solutions 50 Property Maintenance: David Grey 73 Property Maintenance: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 53 Property Maintenance: Kev Property Services 64 Public House: The Coach at Horsley 23 Public House: The Sitwell Arms 22

Reflexology: Reflexology with Vicky Reiki: Ocean Oracle 32 12

Residential Care Home: Coxbench Hall 81

Restaurant: Angelo’s at The Kings Head Restaurant: The Coach at Horsley

25 23 Restaurant: The Gallery 25 Restaurant: The Kedleston Country House 22 Restaurant/Function Rooms/Hotel: Morley Hayes 23 Restaurant/Function Room: The Sitwell Arms 22 Roofing: GB Roofing Services 67 Roofing: Harris Roofing Services 69 Roofing: Ripley Rubber Roofing 64

Security: Prestige Soft Furnishings: Joy Clarke Solicitors: Shacklocks Solicitors: Smith Partnership 64 62 8 11

Tarot: Ocean Oracle Taxi: Holbrook Travel Tree Care: ArborEx Tree Care: Charnwood Tree Services Tree Care: Pennine Tyres: Best Grip Tyres & Exhausts: ETS 12 14 73 58 39 1 2

Walking Footwear: Rock Fall UK 16 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Clearview Glass 47 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Smartglaze 42 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Total Home Improvements 66 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Trade Windows 55 Woodburning Stoves: Robeys 51