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BS Bonsal 7 May21
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From Hen Racing to a Bygone Industry What do you know about Bonsall?

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Bonsall is tucked away in an upland bowl, high above the Derwent Valley and seems a place where time has passed it by.  Nevertheless it has been home to a proud group of villagers since long before William the Conqueror’s scribes listed it as Bonteshall in the Domesday Survey. Its early prosperity was based on […]
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Walks

Walk Derbyshire – Along the Great Nortner & Bonnie Prince Charlies Trails

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This short walk skirts the rapidly expanding western boundary of Derby enjoying some of the fine surrounding countryside, and returns by way of the Bonnie Prince Charlie Walk. The Great Northern Railway was once a cross country line from Grantham to Stafford by way of Nottingham, effectively linking both east and west coast mainlines.  It […]
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Celebrity Interview – Steve Backshall

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Explorer, naturalist, television presenter and writer Steve Backshall has dived with sharks, been hunted by a polar bear and gone on expeditions to parts of the globe that have never been explored before. So what is he afraid of? His answer may shock you: “I’m afraid of people. I think we’re far more frightening than […]
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Endurance 3 Apr22
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History of Endurance

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In late 1914 the world was threatened by war. Shackleton volunteered to cancel his plans for an expedition and placed his ship at the disposal of the UK Government. The First Sea Lord, Winston Churchill, instructed him, however, to proceed. Shackleton accordingly headed south, but chose to avoid the Falkland Islands, which he reckoned might […]
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The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Eastwood Hall, Ashover

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Ashover is a most interesting, beautiful and large parish in central Derbyshire, situated just south east of the main road from Matlock to Chesterfield (A632). The parish is home to several minor country houses – Eddlestow, Goss, Marsh Green and Stubben Edge Halls, not to mention Eastwood Grange – but also includes a lost house, […]
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Product Test – Green People

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Feel The Sunshine With Green People Add a little sun kissed glow to your face and body with these luxury products by Green People Our Promise To You Natural & organic  •  Kind to sensitive skin Sustainably sourced ingredients  •  Cruelty-free & vegan Free from ethyl alcohol & gluten For more information and to buy […]
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Walk Derbyshire – A Winter Warmer – To Riber & High Tor

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This winter’s walk is one of my favourites, both in summer as well as winter.  I can see Riber Castle quite easily from our bedroom window, in fact most of the walk is visible from where we live, high above the Derwent Valley.  I followed the walk on a wintery day last February, when the […]
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Celebrity Interview – Sara Blizzard

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Getting up at 3am to go to work is enough to bring a deep depression on many people. But not Sara Blizzard – she has a sunny outlook whenever she comes into our living rooms presenting the weather on BBC Television. This month marks the 23rd anniversary of Sarah’s East Midlands Today debut. She breezed […]
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Places Pevsner Forgot – Hilcote

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It seemed incredible to us that a settlement containing perhaps the finest miners’ cottages in the Midlands should have been missed by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in his travels. Possibly, in 1953, when compiling the first edition of his guide to Derbyshire in his historic series The Buildings of England and having visited Blackwell, of which […]
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Lost Houses

Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Foremark Hall

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The estate at Foremark, where once the invading Vikings over-wintered in 783-784, was granted to Nigel de Stafford,a (genuine) comrade-in-arms of the Conqueror and ancestor in the male line of the Stafford, Longford and Gresley families. His family’s later sub-tenant was a junior member of the powerful de Ferrers family, whence it passed through an […]
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