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Dining Out

Restaurant Review – Nicco Restaurant & Bar

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

Set in the heart of Pride Park sits a refreshingly new dining experience. Tall glass doors open into a jaw-dropping, spacious restaurant with touches of glamour, high lights and low lighting, marble tables and comfortable seating. Across half of the back wall, floor to ceiling, the cocktail bar displays more drinks than I can give […]

Walks

Walk Derbyshire – A Walk from Grin Low & Buxton Country Park

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

There are not many walks claiming to start downhill, but this one does (although the height lost must be regained at the end, but nothing is perfect, is it?) The walk starts from the car park accessing Solomon’s Temple before dropping down to the centre of Buxton and its Pavilion Gardens, returning by way of […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Tristan Gemmill

November 27, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

He’s played cool, confident consultant Adam Trueman in Casualty, complicated bistro owner Robert Preston in Coronation Street and on stage he was hunky Frank Farmer, the title character of the musical The Bodyguard. Now Tristan Gemmill is to play a totally different role in Nottingham. He is hoping to be jeered in the Theatre Royal […]

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Featured

Places Pevsner Forgot III – Froggatt & Bretton

November 26, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

There have to be places that Sir Niklaus Pevsner omitted simply because the buildings there were not really worthy of record, but whilst one could not really say that about Froggatt, with Bretton it is different, for there are precious few buildings there in any case, but, like Aston and Thornhill, the scenery is electrifying. […]

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Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire : Coney Green House – North Wingfield

November 26, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

The name Brailsford is a common one in Derbyshire (not to mention elsewhere), and received added lustre through the knighthood granted to Shardlow-born Sir Dave Brailsford in 2012 for services to cycling (notably Olympic cycling). As Brailsford is an unique place-name, it is generally accepted that all people of this name descend from the ancient […]

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A Glimpse of Today’s Buxton

November 26, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

With the restoration of the historic Crescent fully completed and open to visitors, Buxton can once again bask in its early glory. Brian Spencer explores this, the highest market town in England. Buxton retains the best of its Victorian spa-town layout, especially around the town centre, managing to ignore the massive limestone quarries on its […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Amanda Owen

November 7, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

Running a 2,000-acre hill farm in one of the most remote parts of the Yorkshire Dales might not be everyone’s cup of tea. But Amanda Owen takes everything as it comes – which you have to do when you’re a shepherdess, writer, photographer, public speaker and mother to nine children! Amanda is known to millions […]

Female

Product Test – Smell Good with River Island Fragrances

November 7, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

Womenswear fragrance fashion Capitals of the World. Inspired by the fashion capitals of the world, Paris, Milan and London, these fragrances have been designed to complement your style, day or night. Leaders, not followers, take cues from iconic cities and push your boundaries. Nothing will complete your looks like a deliciously unique scent. London – […]

Walks

Walk Derbyshire – Taddington to Flagg & Chelmorton

November 7, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

This month’s walk has a little bit of archaeology thrown in for good measure. All it takes is a strong pair of legs, keen eyesight and maybe but not essentially, a lightweight set of binoculars. Starting and finishing in the delightful village of Taddington, a place where winter snows seem to come long before other […]

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Places Pevsner Forgot III – Aston & Thornhill-in-Peak

November 7, 2021 Alistair Plant 0

If Sir Nikolaus Pevsner had included scenery as well as buildings, the hamlets of the Hope Valley might have taken up as much room in his Buildings of England volume on Derbyshire as Chatsworth but, of course, it’s buildings that he is attempting to record and they are a little sparse in these places, but […]