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Derbyshire’s Corinthian

January 5, 2017 admin

It was appropriate that a memorial service for Donald Carr, who died on 11 June aged 89, should be held at Repton School, where his cricket and football career was shaped. That career, straddling the amateur era as a player and the professionalism of the Seventies and Eighties as an administrator at Lord’s, was the […]

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Neil Heldreich – Celebrates 30 years in business

November 28, 2016 Alistair Plant

Derbyshire has always been home to fine craftsmen and one of them, furniture restorer Neil Heldreich, is celebrating his 30th anniversary in business. It’s a milestone reached thanks to help from the Prince’s Trust, which this year marks its 40th anniversary. Traditional furniture restorers and French polisher, Heldreich, based at Hollington, near Ashbourne, has come […]

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Calke Abbey And Its Gardens

September 28, 2016 Alistair Plant

In the years before Calke Abbey became a National Trust property, a visitor who had heard rumours of rooms full of abandoned relics, decided to ‘explore’. Making an excuse to visit a toilet, he deliberately wandered along neglected corridors, opening doors into rooms where years of sunshine had bleached the colour out of Victorian Turkey […]

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The Farne Islands

January 7, 2016 BrianSpencer

Now run as a wildlife sanctuary by its present owners the National Trust, the tiny group of mainly uninhabited islands can only be reached by one of the small ferries operating daily from nearby Seahouses throughout the summer months. Brian Spencer joined one of the frequent cruises. In all innocence we thought that the Tuesday after […]

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Gardening – Summer

August 5, 2014 Alistair Plant

Its always interesting looking back on my diary and what I wrote this time last year in Country Images Magazine. I wrote about how the rain just kept coming and it rotted the Rose blooms on the plants – it just shows that 2 years are never the same and you have to adjust your […]

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Lost Houses: Littleover Old Hall

June 4, 2014 Alistair Plant

There is still a Littleover Old Hall standing in our leafy Derby suburb, as any member of the community would be only too pleased to inform you. Yet the house that now acts as the centrepiece of the HQ of the Derbyshire Fire & Rescue Service, hemmed in as it is by utilitarian modern buildings, […]

Greenway – Agatha Christie’s Devonshire Retreat

January 2, 2014 Alistair Plant

As befitted a trip back into the time when Agatha Christie wrote most of her crime novels, we arrived at Greenway on a vintage bus from Torquay. Alighting from it was something of a shock for surely we had seen the house in the not too distant past. Once the penny had dropped we realised […]