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Celebrity Interview – Gareth Malone

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He’s encouraged schoolchildren, the partners of military personnel and young offenders to sing. Now Gareth Malone, “the nation’s most loved choirmaster”, wants to get everyone exercising their vocal chords as he tours theatres with his new show Sing-Along-A-Gareth. It’s an idea that grew out of lockdown when Gareth was concerned that people weren’t allowed to […]
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Lost Houses

Lost Houses of Derbyshire – The New Inn Derby

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by Maxwell Craven I decided to take a break from country houses this month and mention a licensed house – not that I have run out of the former, but I felt a building as substantial as this merited inclusion, especially as it had a notable place in the history of local coaching and for […]
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Walks

Walk Derbyshire – Around Kedleston, Woods & Parkland

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Opening my latest copy of WALK DERBYSHIRE the seventh no less, I realised that the first walk in the guide took in much of Kedleston’s parkland, but less than half of its beautiful woods and plantations.  As enjoyable as the walk maybe, it would be a great pity to exclude the extensive woodlands covering North […]
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Celebrity Interview – Oddsocks

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“Many people who struggled with Shakespeare at school must laugh when they see Oddsocks’ website. And that’s exactly what the Derbyshire theatre company wants its audiences to do.” A quote from a four-star review sits on the front page of the Oddsocks website proclaiming that it makes Shakespeare “such enormous fun”. There’s also the declaration […]
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Places Pevsner Forgot by Maxwell & Carole Craven

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We supposed that Sir Nikolaus Pevsner missed Horsley Woodhouse because he probably travelled north along the Derby to Heanor road, and was thus able to enjoy Smalley, and on another occasion doubtless journeyed south west from Denby towards Coxbench (neither of which he missed) passing by Horsley Woodhouse at Four Lane Ends where that road […]
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Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Kedleston Hall by Maxwell Craven

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No-one knows what the ancient hall at Kedleston looked like, except that it was built before 1198 by one the earlier Curzons, which family had inherited the estate by 1100 probably through marriage from the Domesday Book holder, Wulfbert, who held it from Henry de Ferrers. We do know, however, that a new house had […]
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Looking Around Duffield

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Leafy side roads lined with pleasant houses, home for many Derby commuters, fill a sheltered hollow where the Ecclesbourne meets the River Derwent.  Regular flooding by the latter meant that development was kept well above the water meadows lining both sides of the meandering river.  After the Norman Conquest, the village became a kind of […]
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Product Test – Miller Harris

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For more information and to buy online visit  www.millerharris.com Scherzo Body Wash £24 Lose yourself in your own story with the unique character and intensity of our Scherzo Body Wash. Every lather unleashes a new chapter of lavish richness with the heady combination of Davana, Patchouli and Oud. With coconut extracts and vitamin E to […]
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DO Meynell Langley 1 Sep22
Dining Out

Lunch at Meynell Langley

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There aren’t many of  them left; I’m talking about nurseries. Not the ones where you abandon your offspring but the places where you can buy plants that have probably been grown from seeds or cuttings by the person who served you. The family-run Meynell Langley Gardens is one such place. It’s a retail nursery and […]
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BS Walk Bretton Clough 1 Sep22
Walks

Walk Derbyshire – Bretton Clough

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Starting from a popular pub, the Barrel Inn, which is the focal point of the hamlet of Bretton, a small hamlet high on Eyam Edge, the walk enjoys delightful views over the surrounding countryside. Wooded valleys, one of which, Bretton Clough, is the focal point of this walk.  By tradition Bretton Clough is where the […]
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