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Dining Out – The Little Kitchen, Little Eaton

October 30, 2024 VickyP 0

Over my very long and undistinguished working lifetime I’ve done many and varied jobs. One, was working with my father. The work was physically demanding and required, what I would call, an early start; with no time to eat before leaving home. So, after the first of the day’s deliveries had been loaded onto the […]

Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Burdett’s House, Full Street, Derby

October 30, 2024 VickyP 0

Peter Perez Burdett is an important, enigmatic and tantalizing figure. He is best remembered as a cartographer, having surveyed and drawn only the second one inch to one mile UK county map of Derbyshire and he repeated the exercise with Cheshire. He was also a talented artist, he claimed to have invented the mezzotint, and […]

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Win Tickets to the The Good Food Show

October 28, 2024 VickyP 0

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Walks

Walk Derbyshire – A Hike Through Dovedale & Beyond

October 2, 2024 VickyP 0

Dovedale is one of those iconic places in Derbyshire which everyone knows about, but finding a circular route can be a little tricky. You have a few choices on this walk to either walk down to the stepping stones, have a paddle, head up to Thorpe Cloud for the views or just picnic by the […]

Dining Out

Dining Out – Meynell Langley Garden Centre & Tea Rooms

October 2, 2024 VickyP 0

Meynell Langley gardens is one of an increasingly rare genre of plant nurseries. If you’re looking for gifts or ornaments, silk flowers or garden fairies then you are going to be sorely disappointed. Turning off the busy Ashbourne to Derby road you immediately enter the calming green countryside of south Derbyshire. Winding country lanes soon […]

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A Century In The Making – The Grand Unveiling of the Restored ‘Bluebird’ Tram at Crich Tramway Village”

October 2, 2024 VickyP 0

There was quite a hush as the doors to the conservation shed were slid open at an event for special guests and Tramway Museum Society (TMS) members on Friday 13th September 2024 at Crich Tramway Village. Ten years of hard work was about to be revealed. It’s amazing how nostalgia sparks such interest in a […]

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Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Grangefields, Trusley

October 2, 2024 VickyP 0

Grangefields lies in the northern part of the parish of Trusley and has a long history going back to the compilation of the Domesday Book in 1086, and maybe before, for it lies only a quarter of a mile south of Long Lane, the alignment of the Roman Road from Derventio (Little Chester) to Salinae […]

Walks

Walk Derbyshire – A Wander With An Ogston View

September 9, 2024 VickyP 0

This has got to be one of our favourite walks which we discovered just coming out of lockdown. It takes in the beautiful views over Ogston Reservoir. You also get a bit of height on this walk so the view down the hills at one or two points is pretty stunning. Ogston Reservoir is owned […]

Celebrity Interviews

Celebrity Interview – Fairground Attraction

September 9, 2024 VickyP 0

by Steve Orme Thirty-five years after splitting up, the four original members of the group Fairground Attraction are back together – and they reckon they’ve still got their unique sound which propelled them to the top of the charts. The band had a stratospheric rise to fame in the late 1980s. Their first single Perfect […]

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Lost Houses

The Lost Houses of Derbyshire – Ockbrook Manor

September 9, 2024 VickyP 0

by Maxwell Craven Ockbrook Manor was a wonderful old house which one could only describe as ‘multi-period’ having, seemingly a portion of its fabric from virtually every post-modern era. The other thing is, that by being called ‘Manor’, one might assume that it was the capital mansion of an estate going back well into the […]