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Walk Derbyshire – Ashover & Littlemoor via Ashover Rock

June 2, 2025 Alistair Plant 0

Such a pretty little village with stone cottages, lovely country pubs and stunning walks which feature water and hills with awesome views. Ashover is definitely a walkers paradise and offers nice places for a drink or meal after. This month’s walk features a beautiful view through the heather which should hopefully be out in […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Mark & Lard

June 2, 2025 Alistair Plant 0

by Steve Orme Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley presented various weekday shows on BBC Radio 1 from 1991 to 2004. Now they are on the road with their show Carry On – An Evening With Mark and Lard which is basically a series of clips from their afternoon programme. They will stop off at both […]

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Derby’s Iconic Market Hall is Back

June 2, 2025 Alistair Plant 0

by Maxwell Craven “The design that emerged and which Thorburn built from 1863, centered upon an impressive covered hall with an iron roof made by local founder, J. & G. Heywood & Co. at their Phoenix Foundry, which covered an area of 220 x 110ft.” From Medieval times, Derby was a flourishing market town. Indeed, […]

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The Art of Conservation

June 2, 2025 Alistair Plant 0

Around 70km north of Hanoi, Vietnam a beautiful Asiatic moonbear stretches to his full height and climbs up onto a high platform to examine a fresh bunch of wild grasses, leaves and branches. But for the first seven years of his life, this bear had spent his days in a dark cramped cargo container […]

Lost Houses

Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Old Radburne Hall

June 2, 2025 Alistair Plant 0

By Maxwell Craven One of the most delightful, sequestered and ancient parish churches in the county is that of St. Andrew, Radbourne, set beside the Radbourne Brook (effectively a tautology: the clue is in the name, the ‘red bourne’, or stream) in a hamlet which hardly seems to exist, despite being barely four miles from […]

Derbyshire Makers

English Wine Project – Award winning wines from Derbyshire

February 12, 2024 Alistair Plant 0

Derbyshire is a county that produces some of the country’s greatest products and each month we feature one of Derbyshire’s best independent producers. It’s just getting interesting again for Darley Abbey based wine maker, Kieron Atkinson. After a couple of weeks of ‘quieter’ times post-Christmas, Kieron’s gearing up for the announcement of the latest international […]

Walks

Walk Derbyshire – Shardlow’s Inland Port and Eighteenth Century Walk

February 6, 2024 Alistair Plant 0

When the eighteenth century Duke of Bridgewater’s fiancé gave him what we might today call the push, he decided that not only was he secretly pleased to be rid of her, but to be honest, he was also bored by London, which took up too much of her time through the London Society she frequented. […]

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Celebrity Interviews

Steve Orme Interviews – Peter Ireson – Venue Director at Theatre Royal & Royal Concert Hall

February 6, 2024 Alistair Plant 0

“The East Midlands has been a hotbed of entertainment for decades – and Nottingham can rightly claim to be the region’s capital when it comes to attracting big names.” Although acts and tastes come and go, one asset that has remained constant is Nottingham’s Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall. Well over half a million […]

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Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Haden’s House Cathedral Quarter, Derby

February 6, 2024 Alistair Plant 0

If you were to walk towards the city centre in Derby along Queen Street, you would eventually reach St. Michael’s, an unassuming Victorian church designed by Henry Isaac Stevens of Derby and built in 1857-59 of ridged ashlar blacks to replace its Medieval predecessor, the chancel of which collapsed, rather dramatically, on a summer Sunday, […]

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Grindlow & Shatton

February 6, 2024 Alistair Plant 0

By Maxwell & Carole Craven Having enjoyed a delightful wander around these two small hamlets, once part of the enormous parish of Hope, Carole said, ‘I can see why Pevsner forgot about them.’ The two settlements, lying on either side of the same hill (Shatton & Abney Moor) are related to each other only in […]