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Friendship Blooms
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Joseph Spiteri with his lovely bouquet – presented by his wife Tina Spiteri.
The recipient of this issue’s bouquet is Joseph Spiteri of Little Eaton. He was nominated by his wife Tina Spiteri. Here’s what Tina wrote: “I would like to nominate my husband Joseph Spiteri. Joe has always been caring but not romantic. During these recent hard times while I was shielding during lockdowns, Joe has been my rock; he protected me by moving into the spare room and stayed by my side providing 24 hour care and only left the house when absolutely essential. I would like to add romance into his life with these flowers after 24 years of marriage to this amazing man. Love from his wife.” Tina Spiteri
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Short Story
I-Spy
“Are we there yet?” Maggie grunted drowsily, rubbing her eyes.
“Of course we’re not!” Suzette snapped. “We’re miles away.”
After several choruses from the back row of ‘The Wheels on the Bus go Round and Round’ the wheels had suddenly ceased turning.
“Emergency roadworks,” the coach driver had announced dryly. “Looks like we’re all just going to have to be patient before we can play with our buckets and spades.”
Maggie had promised her a fun day trip to the seaside. Just a short coach ride, she’d said, where they could amuse themselves with travel games and chat. Then Maggie had promptly nodded off the moment the coach left the station and all Suzette had seen so far was grass verge, petrol stations and road signs. Right now they were bumper-to-bumper through a nondescript village, no glimpse of the sea in sight.
“Just look at her over there.” Suzette prodded her finger at the window. “Isn’t she the spitting image of that woman?” “What woman?” Maggie adjusted her glasses and followed her gaze. “You mean that woman over there trimming her hedge?”
“Yes, her,” Suzette insisted. “Wait until she turns round, then you’ll see what I mean.”
The woman continued to trim the hedge, oblivious to her captive audience.
“It’s her, isn’t it?” Suzette said excitedly. “That woman, oh you know, she used to be the treasurer for the dramatics society, it’s on the tip of my tongue.”
“Oh,” Maggie nodded, “you mean Mrs Newton-Dainty? Yes, she had a coat like that.” She yawned. “But didn’t she pass away five years ago?”
“That’s what we were told, but you know what, Maggie,” Suzette frowned, “I always thought there was something suspicious about it, didn’t you?”
“Not really, she was very frail,” Maggie shrugged. “I thought she had a good innings to be honest.” “But it was sudden, wasn’t it?” Suzette remembered now. “And I’d just given her my deposit for the Christmas meal. I never did get that back.”
“Good grief,” Maggie snorted. “Trust you to think of something like that!”
“But here she is now,” Suzette raised her eyebrows, “trimming her hedge, bold as brass!”
“Suzette, are you seriously suggesting she faked her own death?” Maggie helped herself to a mint. “For the sake of ten quid?”
“She might be one of those con artists,” Suzette’s eyes widened. “Manoeuvres herself into a position of trust and then, poof, vanishes with her ill-gotten gains.”
“But we went to her funeral,” Maggie protested. “I thought it was very moving.”
“Empty coffin,” Suzette nodded sagely. “Easy to pull off, with a backhander to the right person.”
“She’s got a double garage,” Maggie observed. “Must be a lot of Christmas meal deposits paid for that.”
She tapped sharply on the window as the coach crawled forward.
“What are you doing?” Suzette gasped in horror. “Trying to get her attention,” Maggie said. “Then we can wave at her.”
“Don’t!” Suzette slunk low in her seat. “She’ll know we’re on to her.”
“And then what?” Maggie laughed. “Set her underworld connections onto us?”
“I don’t know!” Suzette shrugged, exasperated. “Pull your hat down anyway.”
The woman put down her hedge trimmers and turned round, revealing herself to be not a woman at all but a teenage boy.
“Oh, it isn’t her,” Suzette said flatly.
“I have to say,” Maggie waved gaily at the boy as they drove past, “that was the most exciting game of I-Spy I’ve ever played.”
Local History
Belper People of the Past
Fanny Finnerty Hall 1866 - 1909
If you happen to go for a stroll in Belper Cemetery, the gravestone of Fanny Hall can hardly escape your notice. This impressive memorial stands in the central area opposite the funeral chapels and commemorates Fanny, her husband Albert and their son Henry.
Fanny Finnerty spent her life among travelling show people. She was born in Birmingham in 1866 and her father was a confectioner and a showman. At 5 years old she was with her family in Chesterfield lodgings and the next information I could find was when Fanny married Albert Hall at Duffield Church in December 1888, as shown on their marriage record.
Like her father, her new husband was described as a confectioner whose own father Henry was the landlord of The Grapes, but the Halls were also showmen and very much involved in the funfairs which travelled round the Midlands. In 1891, after their first child Nelly was born, the family were in a caravan in Derby where Albert ran a rifle shooting saloon. The Hall family partly owned the fairground site at Derby’s Morledge where Fanny and Albert lived with other travelling showmen. Co-owners of the site were the Proctors (of Belper Fair fame) and the two families were close and connected by marriage.
1901 finds Fanny and Albert living in a caravan at West Bars, Chesterfield and by now they had three children Nelly, Henry and Ernest. Albert was again running a rifle saloon. Fanny would have been extremely busy helping her husband in the fairground business, most likely keeping accounts and organising their lives on the move as well as bringing up their three children. Tragically their son Henry died at the age of 16. On the grave stone he is described as “a jewel lent to us”. Fanny died a year later at the age of 43, her life was all too short and life-expectancy at that time was not high, but who knows? She might have died of a broken heart after losing Henry. By 1911 Albert had settled down in Belper with his two remaining children as landlord of the Nag’s Head on High Pavement, following in the footsteps of his publican father.
If the family wanted to give Fanny and Albert a splendid memorial, they achieved their aim.
It stands close to the path, my attention caught by its light-coloured stone and her name in full view. There must be many women like her who lie in unvisited graves and I don’t want her to be completely forgotten for who, as a child, has not enjoyed a visit to the fair?
Next to Fanny’s grave are other members of the Hall family who have been fairground people for hundreds of years. Today Halls are still in Derbyshire with the Merry Go Round café, amusements, fish and chips, coffee, donuts and sweet shop in Matlock Bath.
Belper is inextricably linked to the fair and if anyone wants to know more about this aspect of our history there will be a new book in the autumn. I am looking forward to “Belper’s Fairground Heritage” by Neil Calladine who is our town’s own local historian of fairs and show people.
By Viv Scott
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Bereavement Matters
It has been a long time coming, but finally some new rules governing pricing in the funeral industry come into effect this autumn, making it a legal requirement for companies to be transparent with their costs.
This follows work from the Competitions and Markets Authority, which concluded earlier this year that a lack of clear pricing made it hard for bereaved families to compare costs between providers and choose the right service for their loved ones.
Now, everybody has to list their prices on their website and in their premises.
It is surprising that it has taken so long to get to this point, despite many years when consumers and members of the industry have flagged up cases when nationwide operators have charged different amounts for the same services in different parts of the country, or do not even have a price list on display.
In any industry, this could easily be seen as unseemly practice, but it’s not hard to see why there was so much concern in the funeral business, bearing in mind our customers are already grieving families who are failing to come to terms with their loss.
We have always been open and transparent with our costs – which are clearly outlined on our website – so we welcome this ruling because, quite frankly, many other operators, including some big-name firms, have not.
This makes it fairer for everyone, not least the families who now have the clarity they need in order to make the necessary decisions, but also for local family-run firms like ours, who have invested heavily in premises, vehicles and staff to offer a quality service but who people may wrongly expect to be more expensive than one of the larger household names.
Now, everyone knows everything before anyone even walks through our door, which is vital to create that allimportant trust between ourselves and the families we serve.
By Anthony Topley Funeral director, Gillotts Funeral Directors, Abbott Street, Heanor
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Index
Accommodation: Shining Cliff Hostel 15
Accountant: Easy Accounts Ltd Accountant: Yeomans Accountancy Ltd 4 12
Aerials: Aerial Technology of Ripley Airport Transfers: Holbrook Travel
52 18 Airport Transfers: Ripley Minibus Co 19 Animal Welfare: The Cats Protection League 16 Antique Dealer/Collector: Henry Ash 12 Architect: BDS Architecture 67 Architect: Green 2K Design 69 Author: Janet Scaife 85
Bathrooms: Bathtime Heanor Bathrooms: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms Bathrooms: Browns Builders Merchants 58 65 48
Bathrooms: Knight Interiors Bedrooms: Contour Furnishings Bedrooms: Kitchen & Bedroom Warehouse Blinds: Brook Blinds 50 58 75 52
Blinds, Curtains & Shutters: Hillarys
46 Blinds, Curtains, Soft Furnishings: Joy Clarke 77 Builder’s Merchant/Landscaping Products: Browns 48 Building Work: 3Sixty Property Solutions 52 Building Work: Bennett Construction 43 Building Work: JJN Building Services 74 Building Work: Simon Owen Response 64 Building Work: TDB Builders 47
Car Body Repairs & Servicing: B A Kelf Car Body Repairs: ChipsAway 32 31
Car Body Repairs: Martin Buxton
28 Car Sales: Net Cars Ilkeston 30 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: 20Ten Garage Services 29 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: EDM 31 Car Servicing, Repairs, MOTs: Little Eaton Garage 32 Caravan & Motorhome Servicing: EDM 31 Carer Services: Right at Home 92 Carpets & Flooring: Ian Wilson 77 Carpets & Flooring: Spondon Carpets 59 Carpets & Flooring: T Nutt & Sons 7 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Helping Hands 14 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Janine Cleaning 12 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Molly Maid 14 Cleaning/Sanitising Service: Time For You 13 Clothing Alterations: The Duffield Dressmaker 15 Computer Support: Eaton PCs 9 Computer Support: PC Support 9 Computer Tuition: Computer Tutor for U 9 Conservatories, Windows, Doors: Abbey Glass 96 Counselling: Insights 40
Dentist: Glendair Dental Practice Dentures: Beautiful Dentures
34 42 Dog Grooming: Top Hat ‘n’ Tails 16 Door Maintenance & Repair: Door Maintenance & Repair 44
Education: Derbyshire County Council Adult Education 83 Education: Language for Fun 12 Electrician: Andy Hill 44 Electrician: Devenport Electrical 73 Electician: J Beighton 64 Electrician: McPherson-Davis 44 Electrician: Midlec 73 Electician: MJK Electrical 75 Electrician: PAS Electrical 61 Electrician: TME Electrical 43 Estate Agent: Woodward 1
Fence Panels & Wood: Walvins Timber Fencing: ColourFence Financial Advice: Belper IFS Florist: Fleur Florist Footcare: Amber Feet Fuel: Browns/Signal Fuels Funeral Directors: Gillotts Funeral Services 69 60 10 86 36 48 93
Garage Doors: Garolla Garage Doors: Ockbrook Garage Doors Garden Living: Cabin Master Garden Services: Gardens of Wildlife Garden Services: Mark Hudson Garden Services: Pennine Gutter Clearance: Gutter PRO 57 47 3 66 57 43 47 Home Improvements: Next Generation
Ironing Service: Perfectly Pressed
Joinery: Bethell’s Joinery Joinery: R&D Joinery
Kitchens: Belper Kitchens & Bathrooms Kitchens: Dream Doors Kitchens: Holtams Kitchens: Kitchen & Bedroom Warehouse Kitchens: Sonna Kitchens 95
14
44 54
65 53 63 75 51
Ladies Fashion & Accessories: Rebecca Alice Boutique 16 Landscaping: AH Roofing & Landscape 54 Landscaping: Mount Pleasant Landscaping 79
Makeup Artist: Becky Bryan Massage: Equilibrium Minibus & Driver: Ripley Minibus Co 41 34 19
Opticians: Hurst Osteopath: Osteopathy Derby Oven Cleaning: Oven Wizards Oven Cleaning: Spring Fresh 40 36 73 14
Painter & Decorator: Duffield Decorators Ltd 53 Painter & Decorator: John the Painter 66 Painter & Decorator: M Bates 74 Painter & Decorator: Roy Milner 45 Personal Trainer: Alex Robinson 35 Personal Trainer: Bottom Line Fitness 37 Pest Control: MW Pest Control 73 Pet Care Services: The Pet Servant 16 Plastering: Claxton Plastering 47 Plastering: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 50 Plastering: McPherson-Davis 44 Plumbing & Heating: ADS 72 Plumbing & Heating: LEEVA Plumbing & Heating 71 Plumbing & Heating: Martyn Young Heating & Plumbing 68 Plumbing & Heating: MDA 50 Plumbing & Heating: NPC 73 Plumbing & Heating: R Fearn 52 Plumbing & Heating: Scott 54 Plumbing & Heating: Woodward 53 Property Maintenance: 3Sixty Property Solutions 52 Property Maintenance: A R Maintenance 66 Property Maintenance: David Grey 50 Property Maintenance: JM Plastering & Property Maintenance 50 Property Maintenance: Kev Property Services 61 Property Maintenance: Simon Owen Response 64 Public House: The Kings Head Duffield 21 Public House: The Queens Head Little Eaton 6
Residential Care Home: Coxbench Hall
89 Restaurant: Angelo’s Bistro at The Chevin 25 Restaurant: Angelo’s Bistro at The Kings Head 21 Restaurant: Horsley Lodge 27 Restaurant/Function Rooms/Hotel: Morley Hayes 23 Restaurant: Nonno’s 23 Restaurant: The Queens Head Little Eaton 6 Roofing & Landscaping: AH Roofing & Landscape 54 Roofing: Harris Roofing Services 45 Roofing: Ripley Rubber Roofing 43
Security: Prestige Solicitors: Shacklocks Solicitors: Smith Partnership 64 8 11
Taxi: Holbrook Travel Tree Care: ArborEx Tree Care: Charnwood Tree Services Tree Care: Clip ‘Em & Fell ‘Em Tree Care: Mark Hudson Tree Care: Pennine Tuition: Derby Physics Tuition Tyres & Exhausts: ETS 18 79 61 79 57 43 84 2
Weight Management: Lisa Ann 1:1 Diet
41 WiFi: NPC 73 Windows, Doors & Conservatories: Trade Windows 55
