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Dining Out

Dining Out – The White Horse at Woolley Moor

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

Set in what can only be described as the most stunning Derbyshire scenery, with rolling hills and verdant grasslands, The White Horse with rooms combines all this with excellent food. Owned for the last 17 years by David and Melanie, they have gradually developed this lovely old Inn into, in my opinion, one of the best relaxed […]

Walks

Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Through Upper Lathkill Dale

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

It was while I put the final bits and pieces to April – Monyash edition and, mentioning in the text that it starts and finishes in Monyash, it struck me that there is another of my favourites also starting from Monyash old market square. It is only a little under four miles, but it leads […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Ruby Wax

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

By Steve Orme You probably know Ruby Wax as a brash, forthright, no-holds-barred American comedian. You might not know she has also acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company, toured the world filming television documentaries – and has on two occasions spent time in a psychiatric clinic. Ruby has documented her latest stay in a mental […]

Featured

The Historic Core of Derby

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

by Maxwell Craven People often quite reasonably assume that Derby’s Market Place was the original historic core of the borough, but appearances can be deceptive. When King Edward the Elder founded the city as a defended settlement c. 928, the actual core was the area between the Cathedral and old St. Alkmund’s (now part of […]

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Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Parkfields, Derby

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

by Maxwell Craven A notable surge in prosperity in Derby during the Napoleonic wars and afterwards, led to the building of nearly a dozen Regency villas on the fringes, in the suburbs and in the immediate area of the borough, of varying size and quality. Most were built by prosperous merchants and a few by […]

Featured

Derbyshire Makers

May 1, 2024 VickyP 0

Ashton & Coleman Furniture Matlock’s latest retail shop, Ashton & Coleman Furniture, may be new to Matlock but they have been busy building the foundations of their business for almost 10 years. Starting the business partnership in late 2014 combining two separate joinery businesses run by Simon Ashton and Peter Coleman. Settling on Ashton & […]

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Cosy Garden Rooms & The rise in outdoor living

April 4, 2024 VickyP 0

A noticeable trend has emerged in recent years – the rise in popularity of outdoor living. To some extent the pandemic taught us the importance and value of fresh air, nature and outdoor spaces. For the best part of two years our homes and gardens came under scrutiny like never before; our gardens and outdoor spaces […]

Featured

The Historic Core of Derby

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Walks

Walk Derbyshire – A Walk Between Monyash & Flagg

April 2, 2024 VickyP 0

If you were living in the Peak District countryside around a hundred years ago, the chances are that you would be following a dual working schedule. Part of your working day would be tending the needs of a dairy herd and maybe carrying out a little ploughing and growing feed crops for those valuable cattle. […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Billy Ivory

April 2, 2024 VickyP 0

Imagine you’re writing a film and you’re asked who you would ideally like to play the two lead roles. That happened to Nottinghamshire-born screenwriter William Ivory on his last project and he had no hesitation: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson. When approached both actors astonishingly said they wanted parts in The Great Escaper which was […]