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Sheffield’s Industrial Heritage Brought To Life

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St Kilda – An Enchanting Island In The West

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A Brief Look Around Markeaton, Mackworth & Kedleston

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Exploring Winster

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A Visit to Brimham Rocks, North Yorkshire

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Adam Henson Joins The Country Food Trust as Patron

August 25, 2020 VickyP

Adam is a familiar face to many as a TV presenter and tenant of the Cotswold Farm Park, a 650-hectare mixed farm in the Cotswolds, home to more than 50 breeding flock and herds of British rare breed farm animals. The Country Food Trust recently hit its five-year target of providing more than one million […]

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Exploring Matlock

August 25, 2020 VickyP

Matlock started off as a collection of small settlements in the Middle Ages which, thanks to the coming of the railway and a consequent astonishing boom in demand for hydropathic health treatments, quickly became subsumed into a new, rather homogenous whole. When it came to treatments, the Regency upper classes favoured Matlock Bath; the Victorian […]

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In the footsteps of King Richard III

August 25, 2020 VickyP

While we know the central and western parts of the Yorkshire Dales, the eastern edges alongside the Vale of York are, to say the least, a bit hazy to us. After doing a bit of research, we found that Richard spent his childhood and trained in knightly skills at Middleham Castle in the lower reaches […]

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Crich Tramway Village

March 29, 2020 Alistair Plant

Recently it has become almost fashionable for major cities to bring back trams to their streets. Some like say Manchester, have done it with the minimum interruption to normal street traffic. There, it was managed by mainly using defunct railway tracks, but in other places the radical idea of reinventing a long gone system of […]

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A Passion For Mosaic

March 27, 2020 Alistair Plant

Although it’s a while since I waved a hot glue gun in anger, I’m confident I could give craft queen Kirstie Allsopp a run for her money if only I had the time, money and patience to follow basic instructions. Sadly, my previous attempts at crafting – toy making and calligraphy – only left me […]

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Taste Derbyshire – Bottle shops, tap rooms & micro-pubs

February 25, 2020 Alistair Plant

It was 2005 when Thornbridge Brewery, in Derbyshire, started producing one of the UK’s first craft ales. There are now 70 micro-breweries in the county and there’s been a huge rise in the number of outlets – bottle shops, tap rooms and micro-pubs – on a mission to bring these bespoke beers to the public. […]

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Modern Collectibles – Station Name Signs

February 25, 2020 Alistair Plant

So often one can awake from a reverie in the corner seat of a railway carriage when the train stops and look out through a grimy window to see where one is: a helpful sign on the platform, lamp standard or station building quickly puts one right and allows one to slip back into the […]

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South Wingfield Station – A Lost Beauty

February 25, 2020 Alistair Plant

The large, attractive village of South Wingfield no longer relies on mining coal, or producing knitted fabrics for its industries, but has become a quiet dormitory town for the surrounding area. Its one major feature is Wingfield Manor. It was here that Mary Queen of Scots was held captive for several years, all the while […]

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Taste Derbyshire – Canine Delights

January 30, 2020 VickyP

More and more restaurants and cafés are opening their doors to canine customers and Derby even has a fancy bakery exclusively for dogs. Taste Derbyshire’s Amanda Volley went along with her naughty pup Eddie to find out what would happen if you put a Jack Russell in a bakery. My Jack Russell, Eddie, is typical […]

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Cruising Up The Rhine

January 30, 2020 VickyP

When Brian Spencer went on a Rhine cruise, little did he realise that the high point of the trip was, for more than one reason, several thousand feet above the level of the river. A mere four hours after leaving Matlock, we emerged care of Eurostar into bright sunshine on the French side of the […]