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With memories of Peter Ustinov’s Poirot, in Death on

the Nile, we booked ourselves on a fortnight’s trip; one

week by river cruise and the second week land-based

in order to independently explore the temples and

tombs around Luxor, the ancient capital of pharaohic

Egypt.

No matter what your preconceived ideas might be, the impact of

the 4000 year old remains comes like a bolt from the blue.

Eventually the thought that comes to mind is how did those

pharaohic builders erect such huge structures? Carved only with the

aid of bronze tools, furthermore the massive pillars had to be

transported miles downstream from quarries near Aswan, before

they could erect them in their present positions. Massive stone

pillars rising majestically from surprisingly shallow foundations

were erected on behalf of the families of rulers who seemed to have

more thought about the after life than their earthly state. Column

after column is carved with hieroglyphics extolling the earthly

virtues and exploits of the dynasty responsible for the temple. In

death these people were expensively embalmed and entombed

surrounded by fabulous wealth together with pictures of food to see

them through eternity.

Up and down

The NileThere are two ways to explore the wonders of ancient egypt, by riverboat, or from a fixed hotel base usually in luxor or aswan. nowadaysmost tourists prefer to go by boat, but just to be different Brian spencer

tried both methods of exploring the banks of the nile.


There are two main reasons why we can learn

so much about the ancient Egyptians; one is

the fact that the Nile in its annual flooding

eventually preserved the riverside temples

beneath thousands of tons of silt. The other is

again Nile related and is linked to a plant

growing along its banks. This is a kind of reed

called papyrus which when hammered flat

can be made into sheets which we now know

as paper. Before the invention of paper,

records were made by laboriously marking

clay tablets with a stick marking a crude

alphabet. Papyrus based paper made it easy

to write with more permanent ink and so the

complex explanatory pictures were eventually

simplified into a form of writing known as

hieroglyphics. Nowadays it is possible to

decipher these hieroglyphs that were carved

on the temple columns thousands of years

ago and from that we know what the

pharaohs did during their lifetimes.

Life on board a Nile cruise ship is one of easy

luxury; excellent meals to be enjoyed while

the hundred-cabined ship sails majestically in

the safe hands of one of the team of river

pilots, each responsible for a section of the

shoal-filled river. Travelling upstream our first

port of call was Kom Ombo, a temple

dedicated to the crocodile god Sobek. We

had deliberately disembarked in the dark and

the cleverly illuminated temple just cried out

to be explored, imaginatively peopled by its

long dead priests.

The temple cried out to be explored

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The religion of Ancient Egypt is characterised by a bewildering

profusion of divinities, with the country divided between local and

regional gods, many of them, especially those at the top of the

hierarchy being responsible for the essential matters of life: Ra

controlled the universe; Osiris the underworld and the afterlife, usually

portrayed as a mummified pharaoh with a false beard; Isis was the

goddess of fertility, often alongside Hathor the cow-eared goddess of

love and beauty. Every year prior to the building of the Aswan Dam,

the Nile flooded, bringing with it fertile silt, the actual amount and

subsequently the fair system of taxation in ancient times was

determined by the height of the flood. For some unknown reason, the

inundation was heralded by crocodiles and each year the first would be

trapped and kept in a deep pit beside Kom Ombo temple. Even now

the pit looks an evil place that might have appeared in one of the

Indiana Jones’s screen adventures. Whether or not victims were

sacrificed is not on record, but the crocodiles ended their brief spell of

fame by being mummified – a large number of them fill a macabre

museum next to Kom Ombo temple.

With the building of the Aswan Dam producing hydro-electricity and

making modern Egypt an industrial nation, one thing that it lost was the

annual bounty of enriching silt. As a result of Egypt’s industrialisation

the land is losing its fertility but farming is still carried out as it has

always has been, with a bountiful year round sun allowing at least

three crops. One of the places the inundations buried was Esna on the

west bank of the Nile. Here the temple dedicated to Khnum, a

ram-headed god of creation and protector of the source of the Nile,

was buried so deep that a later town was built on top. It was at Esna

that a dosing calèche driver waiting for passengers in his horse drawn

carriage was to our minds the modern but far gentler version of the

warlike chariot drivers carved on the temple walls.

When the Aswan Dam flooded the Nile, it also flooded a number of

temples so an emergency rescue of heroic proportions saw the

beautiful Isis Temple of Philae moved on to a small island close to the

dam. Further along Lake Nasser is the magnificent Abu Simbel temple

built from solid rock by Rameses II, the most enduring image of Egypt

after the Pyramids. Here four monumental statues of the great king that

gaze out over the lake were lifted and set into an artificial hill a

hundred feet or so above the lake. A narrow passage between the 65ft

high statues leads to four seated gods who are lit by the first rays of the

sun on 22 February and 22 October, just one day later than when they

were in their lower position. Close by the Rameses temple a smaller,

but more poignant one was erected to the memory of Nefertari, wife of

Rameses. Whilst the wives of pharaohs were often shown almost in

miniature alongside their husbands, here Nefertari stands shoulder to

shoulder in equal height with Rameses, eternally facing the rising sun.

The road journey to Abu Simbel is a must for anyone who appreciates

the vastness of deserts. Only four miles from the Sudanese border, the

road crosses the tropic of Cancer and passes through fantastically wind

sculptured dunes and arid desert scenery where the stark beauty

contrasts dramatically with the greenness of England.

The Aswan Dam and the Isis Temple of Philae

Abu Simbel temple and the Valley of the Kings


One of the drawbacks of organised ‘cultural’ holidays is that they usually come

with obligatory on the spot lectures. Some information is fine and necessary, but I

have to admit that I much prefer to explore and use my own senses rather than

stand around being talked at, then only given a few moments to see what all the

blather was about. Admittedly this didn’t happen to the group we were with, but

I saw one group stood with their backs to the wonders of Abu Simbel while their

guide droned on – what a waste.

Preferring to ‘do our own thing’, our second week based at the delightful riverside

King’s Island complex outside Luxor was far less of a hassle. Ever willing taxi

drivers took us over to the Valley of the Kings and the lesser visited Valley of the

Queens on either side of the Theban Hills. Not every tomb is accessible, but

those that are throw light on the life of the pharaohs almost four thousand years

ago. The whole district is devoted to the cult of immortality with mortuary

temples in profusion; especially that of Queen Hatshepsut, a woman who acted

like a king and whose temple could easily have been designed by one of

Mussolini’s fascist architects.

Tomb building was very much a full time industry in pharaohic times and the

village where the artisans lived, Deir el-Medina, can still be traced from its

half-standing walls and streets to the east of the Theban Hills. Working a ten day

week digging deep complex tunnels, or decorating them with vibrant colours they

still managed to build their own tombs on their days off.

The temple of the cow-eared goddess Hathor at Dendera is about 27 miles north

of Luxor. The temple was dedicated to love and fertility and is where royal births

took place. Even now women with fertility problems come to pray at the birthing

temple later taken over by the Coptic Christians. Queen Cleopatra prayed here

and bathed in the now dried up sacred pool. She became something of a

goddess and is depicted on the back wall of the temple alongside Cæsarion the

son she had following her liaison with Julius Caesar. The cost incidentally of the

54 mile taxi ride came to the equivalent of £9.50, but we did buy the driver’s

lunch!

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phenologist, think about what you could do to help. Plants are

easy to record, they don’t move from place to place like birds or

insects, so why not sow a few wild flower seeds, plant a few

more bulbs or a fruiting shrub, many things can be done in the

smallest of gardens. Bird populations can increase dramatically

by simple, inexpensive aids. Can access to outbuildings be made

available to swallows, could a nest box be installed for barn

owls? When I was a boy, house sparrows were very common,

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fallen, not due to lack of food but due to lack of nesting sites as

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legislated against this and numbers of the species are now

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each situation. Phenology is tied up, or appears to be, with

global warming, another extremely complex issue. With

scientists making new discoveries all the time, who knows what

the outcome of their research will prove?

What of the present state of the natural world? First impressions

suggest it is still in a state of slumber with little to interest a

phenologist. I am on new territory so I cannot compare this

mid-January with previous years. Birds are feeding on a holly

with yellow berries; those that have fallen to the ground are

being consumed by mice. I stood looking for life in the cold,

clear water of the stream, flowing relentlessly on its way to the

sea, not far away now. The north-westerly breeze was cold, like

the stream, both part of huge processes aimed at restoring parity

to the world without ever succeeding, the water flowing downhill

to sea level, the wind from high to low pressure. Not all is

slumbering as I heard a dog fox barking as it searched for a mate

during the night, deep-seated instincts holding sway. The eerie

call of a tawny owl came to me over the frost-covered fields, the

temperature had fallen to minus two degrees centigrade. If a

creature doesn’t hibernate it has to feed regularly, no matter what

the weather.

Bye for now Furlong

This article should be with you in early February, a good time to

observe what is happening in the natural world in and around the

house, the garden, hedgerows and many other habitats. The

creatures and plants observed can be one or many, according to

your choice. Plants and resident creatures, emerging hibernating

animals and insects, the arrival of summer visitors and the

departure of winter visitors give more than enough choice. I

regret not having systematically recorded data over the years so

perhaps I am not the best person to suggest drawing graphs and

charts. However, what an opportunity it provides to involve

children in learning more about the wonderful world around

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A Portrait of

Joseph Wright of Derby

by Maxwell Craven

The December Fine Art Sale at Bamfords offered,

amongst its 4000 odd lots (sold over three days), a

very fine near-contemporary portrait of Derby’s

incomparable 18th century artist, Joseph Wright

(1734-1797).

Estimated at a modest £2000 to £3000 it was deservedly sold

at £5000. The catalogue note, which I had the pleasure of

largely writing, had to err on the side of caution but also

remain to the point. Yet there were so many unresolved and

potentially exciting possibilities concerning this picture (right).

The portrait seems at first glance to be a copy of Joseph

Wright’s ‘Self Portrait at the Age of about Fifty’ now in the

National Portrait Gallery, which was also one of the highlights

of the Tate Exhibition of Wright's work organised in 1990. This

well known image shows the artist, bust length looking half

right to the artist (himself in this context) wearing a green coat

and a rather worried expression. His natural hair, slightly

tinged with grey, curls over his ears in the fashion of the time,

but looks a trifle fly-away on his right side.

Bamford’s painting, which is nevertheless extremely

competent, seems on closer inspection to be distinctly

different in its detail. The green coat, white stock and the

fly-away hair are still there, but here the coat collar is ridged at

the back, the stock more tucked in, the hair greyer and the

expression more determined and steadfast than troubled. Judy

Egerton remarks in the 1990 catalogue that “the hair is

thinning, and the gaze troubled” and notes its “private,

intimate quality” suggesting a date of c1782-1785 on the basis

of similarity of attire to the well-known portrait of Samuel

Ward (in Derby Museum), dated by Wright’s biographer the

late Benedict Nicolson to c1782-3 ‘or later’. Importantly,

Egerton also points out that the self-portrait is not fully

finished: “the handling is most perfunctory, and the work lacks

finishing touches; the condition of the picture is only fair, with

old re-touchings showing through…”

The sitter’s general demeanour in the Bamford’s portrait is

much closer to the ‘Self Portrait in the Black Feathered Hat’

(also in the Tate exhibition) of c1767-1770. It was generally

agreed that the self-portrait was not by Wright himself, so what

does it represent and exactly who painted it?

It is known that Wright included a ‘Portrait of an Artist’ in his

one-man exhibition at Robin’s Rooms in 1785 along with a

self-portrait, painted the previous year and purchased by

Josiah Wedgwood. A contemporary review noted “the head is

highly finished” which is not something one could say about

the National Portrait Gallery’s picture. The NPG painting

descended from the artist’s daughter, Anna Romana (Mrs

Cade) to WAW Bemrose of The Cedars, Whitaker Road,

Derby and was sold by his son, Alan Bemrose, to the gallery.

Judy Egerton also notes that the NPG version would hardly be

something the artist would have wanted to put in an

exhibition to advertise his flair and competence in its

unfinished state as we now see it. Thus the highly finished self

portrait of similar date sold to Wedgwood and subsequently

untraced, may have been a re-working or a worked up

version of the NPG/Bemrose one.

The Bamford’s picture is certainly properly finished and the

artist looks out confidently at the world. If it lacks the flair to

be the missing Wedgwood Self Portrait, it seems exceedingly

likely that it is a highly competent copy of it. Thus Wright

seems to have painted the sketch for his self-portrait (now in

the National Portrait Gallery) and abandoned it, so that it

remained in his heirs’ possession after his death in 1797. He

then started again, producing a highly finished version which

was sold to Wedgwood. That painting has, it would seem,

disappeared but what was sold in December seems to be a

very good copy of it and painted not long afterwards too.

We cannot be positive who painted the copy that was sold

but there are three candidates, one amateur and two

professionals. The amateur was the artist’s devoted friend,

John Holland of Ford House, Ogston. The professionals were

Thomas Barber of Nottingham (later of Derby) and James

Rawlinson of Matlock Bath, all three were remarkably gifted.

The missing Wedgewood Self Portrait


John Holland was the only son of Thomas Holland, an opulent

maltster in the third generation at Chesterfield. Thomas’s

grandfather had bought the Ford estate in 1680 and the grandson

had erected a new rather grander house on a fresh site. Thomas

served on the local Bench and as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in

1763, he married Cornelia, daughter of Cornelius Farr of

Bolsover. Their son John was born the same year as Joseph

Wright, in 1734 and appears to have been at Derby School with

Wright himself. Holland and Wright became reacquainted in or

around 1780, when Holland came to Wright’s studio to study his

painting of the Synot Children. A close affection similar to that

between the artist and the reformist grandee Thomas Gisborne

developed. A letter of 10th October 1795, for instance,

concludes “...your affectionate friend”. Nicolson added, “He

showed his devotion to Wright by executing around the turn of

the century a number of conscientious copies of some of his

self-portraits and landscapes”. Holland later wrote to John Leigh

Philips on 19th August 1799 “I will tell you that Mr. Wright

many times has entrusted many of his most choice pieces to me,

& permitted me to take a copy...” Holland married Mary (died at

Ford 1847) daughter and co-heiress of Revd Benjamin Burrows,

rector of Morton and he died without issue in 1807. It was on

the Ford estate that Wright painted his Rainbow (duly copied by

Holland) and the parkland around Ford House was landscaped

by another friend, Revd Christopher Alderson, whose portrait

was one of the last painted by Wright in 1795.

The two self-portraits we are certain Holland copied are the ones

in the Turbutt collection, inscribed on the reverse, “Mr. Wright

from an original of his painting by J Holland.” and the very well

known ‘Self Portrait in a broad-brimmed Hat’ (sold in a Derby

dealer’s c1990). Holland also painted other subjects by his

friend, as with two of his ‘Bladder’ studies.

Nottingham-born Barber (1771-1843) had been a pupil of Sir

Thomas Lawrence who from 1812-13 settled in Derby and is

said to have copied some of Wright’s paintings, although no

details survive. James Rawlinson on the other hand was also a

professional artist. He was a son of George Rawlinson, an

architect whose career seems to have been given a considerable

boost by commissions from Sir Richard Arkwright, through which

he moved from Derby to Matlock Bath. James, born in 1769, was

a pupil of George Romney and remained in Derby until 1823

when he moved to his father’s house in Matlock Bath. We know

he copied Wright’s ‘Portrait of Erasmus Darwin Holding a Pen’ at

least once. Indeed, there is still some doubt as to whether the

portrait of the great polymath in Derby Museum is by Wright or

Rawlinson. However, it is not known whether this was produced

just in an effort to meet the phenomenal demand for portraits of

Darwin, especially after his death in 1802, or whether Rawlinson

copied Wright on other occasions. (Derby Local Studies Library,

MS 3202 f. 83; Derby Mercury obit. 20/8/1848; Nicolson (1968)

I. Cat. No. 54).

The size of the picture also tells against it being the original

Wedgwood self portrait, however. The Bamford’s portrait

measures 20” x 17”, a size which Wright did use in his early

days, as in ‘The Wilmot Children’ of c1760, but later his

head-and-shoulder portraits were invariably 30” 25”. Yet it has to

be remembered that the NPG portrait of the same period is not

that much larger, measuring only 24.5” x 20.75”.

If the self portrait is indeed a copy of the missing and highly

finished Wedgwood one, then the most likely person to have

made such a striking copy would seem to have been John

Holland. No single copy of a Wright by Barber has ever been

certainly identified, despite contemporary attestation that he did

copy his works and Rawlinson may have confined himself

merely to painting Erasmus Darwin in order to satisfy the

considerable local demand for pictures of him in the period

surrounding his death in 1802. Provenance in this case is of little

help as the distinguished Derbyshire family from which it came

bought it originally from a dealer and the thread was lost.

The Holland copies

“Mr Wright many times has entrusted many of his most choice piecesto me, & permitted me to take a copy...”

John Holland

Joseph Wright; The National Portrait Gallery.

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The breezy upper reaches of the amberValley are a patchwork of green fields and

secluded wooded hollows. amidst thisand reached only by winding side lanes,Stubbing Court sits back from its GreatPond where olave, Lady Baden-Powell,

wife of the founder of the scoutingmovement, spent part of her childhood.

Brian Spencer follows her fascinating life.

OlaveLady Baden-PoweLL

Recently Derbyshire County Council ran a

competition to nominate those who have

done most to put Derbyshire on the

worldwide map. Despite strong

competition from the likes of Sir Richard

Arkwright and George Stephenson, Olave

Baden-Powell, first leader of the Girl

Guides, was an easy winner, polling

several thousand votes ahead of her

nearest rival. As a result a blue plaque in

her honour now stands in Shentall

Memorial Gardens, Rose Hill,

Chesterfield, on the site of her birthplace,

West House. Alongside the gold chained

civic dignitaries, fittingly the plaque was

unveiled by 9 year old brownie, Halie

Baron.

Olave, the youngest daughter of brewery

owner Harold Soames and artist mother

Katherine (née Hill), was born on 22nd

February 1889 and educated at home by

her father and mother together with a

string of governesses. She lived at

seventeen homes in the first 23 years of

her life, becoming an active outdoor

sportswoman, something unheard of in her

time. These sports ranged from tennis,

swimming, skating and canoeing, but she

also enjoyed playing a violin which she

called ‘Diana’.

It is easy to imagine Olave enjoying her

sporting interests when the family moved

quite early in her life, to Stubbing Court

near Wingerworth. The privately owned

eighteenth century two-storied sandstone

house is set back at the top of sloping

parkland and catches the first rays of

sunlight at dawn. This sylvan idyll is

perfected by the Great Pond of Stubbing,

where, no doubt the venturesome Olave

swam, canoed and in winter skated on its

ice covered surface.

The man who was to become her life

companion despite a difference of 32

years in their ages, Boer War Hero and

founder of the Boy Scouts, Lt General

Robert Baden-Powell spent the years

before the First World War developing his

far reaching ideas. Following the first


scout camp in 1907 on Brownsea Island in

Poole Harbour, Baden-Powell, or BP as he

became known went on to write the

handbook, Scouting for Boys. Despite the

book’s somewhat jingoistic content

attuned to the still flourishing Empire, it

went on to be a bestseller with a

modernised version still in print.

In 1909 the scouting movement was

flourishing with branches worldwide and

the first scout rally was held at Crystal

Palace. By then it was becoming obvious

that the sisters and cousins of boy scouts

didn’t want them to have all the fun and

strong willed girls were keen to take part

in this exciting organisation. Much to the

consternation of BP many of them turned

up wearing the same uniforms as the boys,

and as they showed no inclination to go

away, something had to be done. To this

end BP invited his sister Agnes to write a

handbook along the lines of his Scouting

for Boys, following which the Girl Guide

movement was founded, with Agnes as its

first president.

In 1912 Olave and her father were

crossing the Atlantic on the RMSP

Arcadian en-route for the USA. On board

was Baden-Powell at the start of a

trans-America tour on behalf of the

scouting movement. Despite their age

differences, she was 23 and he 55, it was

love at first sight, although Olave freely

admitted that BP was ‘the only interesting

man on board’. They found a mutual

interest in having the same birthday, 22nd

February, but more importantly, BP

admitted having watched Olave exercising

her dog in London several years earlier.

The couple had to go their separate ways

on arrival in New York, but continued a

loving correspondence which BP strangely

stopped on his return to England. No

doubt in order to prevent his distraught

daughter from moping around the house,

her father wrote to BP probably asking in

the vernacular of the time, what were his

intentions? A chastened Baden-Powell

dropped everything (he was on a fishing

trip at the time) and rushed to make

amends with Olave. The couple were

married on 30th October 1912. This was

much to the delight of all members of the

scouting movement; the girls and boys

each donated one penny towards the

purchase of a car as a wedding present.

The couple started married life at Pax Hill

near Bentley in Hampshire where they

began their family of a son Peter (1914),

Heather (1915) and Betty (1917); Heather

incidentally was named following a

competition within the Girl Guide

Movement.

Soon becoming interested in her husband’s

life work, Olave wanted to take an active

interest in running the guides, but was

turned down as being too young. In 1913

the couple moved to Ewhurst Place near

Robertsbridge in East Sussex where BP

inaugurated the 1st Ewhurst Scout Troop

with Olave as a warranted scoutmaster

It was love at first sight

olave and her lifelong companion,Robert Baden-Powell


assisted by the family’s housemaid and

gardener. This no doubt gained her the

approval of the local guiding hierarchy for

by 1915 she was appointed County

Commissioner and began to organise

guiding in Sussex.

The horrors of the war put a great strain on

the Baden-Powells; they spent long hours

visiting wounded ex-scouts as well as

keeping scout troops active despite

depletions caused by their leaders being

called away on active service. During

much of this time Olave acted as BP’s

chauffeur as he hated driving. It was after

the war and with a return to normality, that

both the boy scout and girl guide

movements began to expand, with

jamborees and world wide conferences

taking up a great deal of the couple’s time;

during this time both partners spent

months away on tours around the world of

scouting and guiding. In 1923 the

Baden-Powells bought Foxlease Estate

which was converted to a training camp

for guides. During a conference of

guiding in July of that year, Olave was

promoted to Chief Guide.

By the time of the Second World War, BP’s

health began to fail and he died on 8th

January 1941, but this did not stop Olave

from continuing their joint work. Early on

in the war Pax Hill was requisitioned by

the Canadian Forces and she was given a

‘grace and favour’ apartment in Hampton

Court. Here, despite the shortages caused

by rationing, she regularly managed to

entertain visiting scouts and guides from

the armed forces.

Post war saw the indefatigable lady

working with Guides International Service

in parts of devastated Europe. Much of her

spare time beyond this work was spent

fundraising, during which she travelled

30,250 miles by land, sea and air, making

231 speeches and giving 62 press

interviews. A tour of Africa in 1956 was

rudely interrupted by the Anglo-French

invasion of Suez, but this did not stop her

work, she simply went to less dangerous

places until the furore had died down.

Retiring in old age, but still keeping an

active interest in the Girl Guides, she

moved to Bramley in Surrey where she

died on 25th June 1977. Her ashes were

placed next to BP’s grave at Paxton in

Kenya.

a blue plaquein olave

Baden-Powell’shonour

now stands inShentall

MemorialGardens, Rose Hill,

Chesterfield.

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Darley was easily the most distinguished and when it was

demolished in 1962, was grade II* listed, making it one of the

5000 most important buildings in England. Not that such a

consideration counted a whit with Derby Borough Council at

the time, nor did the law then stand in their way. Before the 1st

January 1969, a listed building could be demolished provided

the owner gave due notice, mainly to give time for it to be

recorded by the Royal Commission for Historic Monuments

(England).

The estate first emerges as an entity in the possession of the de

Derby family, the town’s first native grandees. Hugh de Derby,

the Dean, gave the estate, called Little Derby, to the Augustinian

Order based at St. Helen’s to expand onto as a fully-fledged

religious foundation, Darley Abbey. This survived until 1538,

when Henry VIII dissolved it, disposing of the assets to Sir Henry

Sacheverell who asset stripped the site of the church before

selling it on to Sir William West. He did not own it for long

either, selling it to Peter Bullock.

Bullock’s purchase included the ‘Abbye Howse’ which suggests

that Sir William had done what purchasers of dissolved abbeys

all over the country had been doing; turning the Abbott’s

residence – invariably fairly grand - into a country house for his

own use. The nearest comparable example is Repton, where the

prior’s spectacular lodging was converted into an opulent

residence by Thomas Thacker, the man to whom the Priory had

been sold.

We have no real idea of what the Bullocks’ house was like, but

we can assume that it underwent a good few re-builds over the

years. The Bullocks, who had moved to Norton in the north of

the county, sold the estate in 1666 to Roger Allestrey MP, of a

distinguished and ancient local family which had lost much

through support for the King in the Civil War. He had been

elected to the Cavalier Parliament and was busy rebuilding the

family fortunes. Ironically, he was a direct descendant of Elias

de Allestree, a serf or villein belonging to Darley Abbey, freed

by the Abbott in 1141 and whose descendants rose to the gentry

The south front as

rebuilt by Joseph

Pickford, seen in

1958 [the late

Edward Saunders]

Darley Hall was one of a trio of major country houses demolished by Derby City Council;

only Allestree Hall survives and that distinguished house has been empty and decaying for

thirty years, having spent a long time on English Heritage’s ‘at risk’ register.

LOST HOUSES OF DERBYSHIRE

daRLey aBBeyDarley Hall

by Maxwell Craven


as tenants of the Abbey. Perhaps they felt they were

coming home.

Roger Allestrey’s son Sir William, eventually sold the Hall

and estate to locally-born London merchant William

Wolley early in the 18th century. He was the author of a

projected history of the Country and died in 1716. He

was succeeded by his son William, an Alderman of Derby

and Mayor in 1722-23. It was in his mayoralty that All

Saints’ church in Derby was taken down and rebuilt to

the design of James Gibbs by Francis Smith of Warwick, a

happenstance which reinforces the late Wilfrid Holden’s

assertion, in his history of his family, that Smith was the

architect of the new house which Wolley Jr built in

1726-27.

Smith provided Wolley with one of his typical four-square

houses, orientated east, facing the river, the original

entrance front and south facing down the park towards a

distant view of All Saints’ itself. The house was of brick,

three storeys high, the long sides (facing east and west)

being of seven bays, those at the ends breaking forward

as corner pavilions and flanked by plain giant Doric

pilasters and a further pair, rusticated, enclosing the

central three bays. There was a cornice, parapet and a

hipped roof behind. The south front was of five bays and

there were service ranges to the north, with a separate

stable block c1730 (still extant, albeit badly decayed) not

attributable to Smith at all, to the north-west. Inside the

hall was the fine timber staircase which rose in two stages

in the centre of the house to the north.

This seems to have greatly impoverished Wolley and he

died only a few years later in 1732, leaving his widow in

severe financial difficulties. To ameliorate these, she

unsuccessfully attempted to sell in 1748, leading to her

mortgaging the estate to the crooked financier John

Heath, leaving her with just 76 acres of parkland and

gardens. This was sold under a decree in chancery in

1754, being purchased by the extremely opulent lead

trader, Henry Thornhill, a younger son of the

Stanton-in-Peak family. He moved to Mansfield

Woodhouse in 1768 and sold both house and park to

Heath, who thus re-united the estate.

Heath eventually managed to sell a long lease of Darley

Hall to Robert Holden of Aston-on-Trent with the proviso

that should he wish to improve the house he should

consult Joseph Pickford, the notable Derby architect. In

1777-8 Pickford duly enlarged the house, adding a

chaste, well proportioned two storey range to the south,

lowering the roof, rebuilding the east front, putting in a

new door with a pediment and rebuilding the west front

as the new entrance side of the house, reflecting the fact

that the main road north from Derby had in 1754 beenThe entrance front seen from the drive, 1949 [the late Ron Cook]

Elevation of the east front as built from an estate plan of 1758

[Derby Local Studies Library]

The new House



The tower of All Saints’ Derby, seen from the park as landscaped by Emes, c1800,

painted by Derby artist Henry Moore [M Craven]

The original staircase seen in

1955 [the late R G Hughes]

The east front as rebuilt, seen in 1937 [M Craven]



Bankersand

Bankruptcy

moved from the old Roman alignment to

the east of the house to the new turnpike

road, out of sight to the west. A new

secondary staircase was provided on this

side, rather marring the elevation. The new

rooms on the south front were

magnificent, decorated in chaste opulence

by Pickford’s craftsmen. John Whitehurst

FRS devised a wind direction indicator for

the main stair case, the dial of which

survives in Derby Museum. He also

installed his patented hot water system

and flushing lavatories, installing a three

seater on the ground floor. Finally, the

park was spectacularly re-landscaped by

the eminent William Emes (1729-1803) a

follower of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown

who had come to Derbyshire in 1758 at

the invitation of Adam to realise the

Scottish architect’s plans for the park there.

All this cost Holden a substantial £4,000

but, almost as soon as everything was

finished, John Heath’s bank went bust. It

then emerged that Holden’s title to the

estate was invalid, Heath having

previously mortgaged it for £8,000 to a

London bank, Boldero & Co, who now

informed the hapless landowner that he

would have to buy a new lease from them,

but at a cost that accounted for the

improvements he had made (and paid for)

to house and park! After a long court

battle, Holden agreed to pay £7,000 to

reclaim the house, park and part of the

estate. The local Receiver in Bankruptcy

was banker Thomas Evans, who went on

to own the rest of the estate, including the

village, where he built a large new house

and founded a cotton mill.

Holden died in 1780, but his cousin,

another Robert, added a library in 1814

(now the only surviving portion of the

building). The Holdens were increasingly

hemmed in by the village, which was

expanded greatly by Thomas Evans’s

successors to house the workers of their

cotton mill and eventually sold it to the

Evans’ family in 1835. Samuel Evans

further rebuilt the house, adding an

arcaded loggia to the entrance, new lodges

and a large conservatory.

When the widow of the last Evans died in

1929, her heir Lionel Curtis offered the

house and 40 acres of park, which had

been open to the public on Sundays since

the 1880s, to the Council. In accepting the

gift, it purchased the remainder too,

totalling 66 acres. Derby Central School

was later moved into the house and a turret

clock was added to the south front in

1950, a bequest from the daughter of

former Mayor, Alderman William Hoare.

After the school moved out in August 1958

the writing was on the wall. After all its

re-buildings the house was perhaps not the

handsomest in the County, especially

having had all its chimneys raised to

counter the effect of being sited in the lee

of the scarp to the west. Nevertheless it

was an historically important and

potentially useful building.

The Council refused a Government grant of

£14,000 towards vital repairs and starting

on 13th March 1962 began the wholly

lamentable process of demolition.

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• Fix nesting boxes to any suitable surface, check bird feeders and

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• Top up bird baths with fresh water and de-frost with warm water

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• Clear away old leaves in borders and around ponds, taking out

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• Trim back any tatty looking autumn

flowering heathers.

• Spread a good layer of home-made

or nursery bought compost around

established roses and shrubs.

• Look out for weed seedlings

appearing; keep under control with

regular hand weeding or hoeing.

• Look for 'multi-buy' bargains at nurseries or garden centres on

compost, buy cheaply now to last you through the spring and

summer season.

• Last chance this month to plant bare root hedging.

In the Allotment or Vegetable Patch• Finish winter pruning fruit trees and soft fruit if not already done

so, painting any cuts with a pruning sealing compound.

• Buy onion and shallot sets and seed potatoes now, apply a

potato fertiliser to the planting area if needs it.

• The frosts may have done this for you but if not use a winter

wash on fruit trees (before they come into leaf) to kill any

over-wintering aphid eggs.

• Sow carrots, parsnips, peas and broad beans outside in soil

that’s been warmed with sheets of polythene or cloches.

• Last chance to plant bare-root raspberry canes.

• Cut down autumn-fruiting raspberry canes to soil level.

In the Greenhouse• Buy

and

plant

summer flowering bulbs in pots.

Bringing pots of spring flowering bulbs

into the greenhouse will promote

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• Sow summer bedding seed now such

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• Vegetable crops to sow in a heated

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cabbage.

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Steve Orme interviews

Tim Brooke-Taylor

LEISUREm n h Celebrity Interview Diary The Walk Gallery Food & Drink


At the age of 72 Buxton-born Tim Brooke-Taylor has a new

television show, is part of one of the longest-running panel games

on radio and is still fondly remembered as one third of a comedy

powerhouse which was last on mainstream television 30 years

ago.

On top of that he is a true ambassador for both Derbyshire and

Buxton, promoting their attractions and attractiveness at every

opportunity.

Tim’s latest TV show Animal Antics, a send-up of news stories

which has unfairly been described as the BBC’s answer to You’ve

Been Framed, is due to end on the second Saturday in February.

The producers said they had chosen Tim to present the show

because of his “gravitas”.

“I said does that mean I’m older?” says Tim who admits he still

does not know what his gravitas is.

He explains that the whole point of Animal Antics is not to make

it like You’ve Been Framed.

“There’s no doubt about it, there are clips of animals doing silly

things. But we want to make it slightly different. It’s a very serious

news format and we take it very seriously,” says Tim with his

tongue very firmly in his cheek.

The show features Tim and a dog called Sparky, played by

Matthew Crosby, presenting funny clips. Tim obviously does not

take notice of the old showbusiness adage about never working

with children and animals.

“Sparky I’m afraid to say is a little bit prejudiced – he thinks all

cats are very stupid, which I don’t think the BBC should allow.

“The show was originally called Newshound which was rather a

good name but the BBC were worried that people might think it

was actually a news programme,” says Tim.

Timothy Julian Brooke-Taylor OBE was born in Buxton in 1940.

While he was at Cambridge University he performed in comedy

sketches and became president of the Footlights theatrical club.

He soon gained work as both a writer and performer on radio and

television. Series such as I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again, At Last

the 1948 Show and The Goodies teamed him with the likes of

John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Marty Feldman, Graeme Garden

and Bill Oddie.

He was one of the original members of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue

which was Garden’s idea and was an offshoot of the sketch show

I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again.

“He’d heard another quiz programme which was absolute

rubbish, so he said we could take some of the sketch show and

ad lib,” Tim points out.

“We did a pilot and we all thought it was total rubbish. I can

remember Humphrey Lyttelton (jazz musician and chairman of

‘Clue’) saying never again and I said I agree with you – never ever

again. And then we did it every year for the next 40 years.”

So why does Tim think ‘Clue’ has been so successful?

“One of the big plusses is that we’ve got a very good producer

who we still call young John (Naismith) although he’s been with

us 25 years. He makes us come up with new ideas.

“We have a meeting before each series and he says ‘look, we

need new ideas, we can’t just rest on old ones.’ We have some

favourites which we always do but we try to get new stuff in every

series.

“I think the other thing is we’re not trying to outdo each other.

We’re all trying to keep the balls in the air, basically – we’re not

fighting each other.”

When I interviewed Barry Cryer (Country Images, August 2012)

he compared the ‘Clue’ team to an old rock band. Tim agrees.

In these days of instant stardom,when people are thrust into thelimelight only to disappear after

their 15 minutes of fame, it’sgratifying to know that there’s still

a place for genuine talent.

A dog called Sparky.

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“The point I make about always trying to do new stuff is very

important. There’s a danger that you rest on your laurels. That’s the

beauty of music – you can do the same song thousands of times.

Unfortunately you can’t do that with jokes.”

There also seems to be a resurgence of interest in The Goodies,

the television show which ran for 12 years and was nominated for

a BAFTA award for best light entertainment programme, only to

lose out to Fawlty Towers.

Tim is pleased that so many people still fondly remember the

show which led to Brooke-Taylor, Garden and Oddie appearing

on Top of the Pops singing The Funky Gibbon which got to

number four in the chart.

“It always surprises me that the BBC don’t repeat it (The Goodies).

We’ve done three tours to Australia where they’ve gone on

showing it and the great thing is it attracts all ages, which is

extraordinary really because quite a lot of it is topical.

“Some of the episodes are a bit dated and some of them actually

are slightly better than I remember.”

Such is the interest that last month Tim appeared in The Lost

Goodies at the Slapstick comedy festival in Bristol.

“Funnily enough one of my two sons who lives in Brighton gets

his television through Virgin and they’re showing the first series of

The Goodies at the moment. That seems fairly bizarre because (a)

there’s no publicity and (b) we knew nothing about it.

“The BBC did some repeats about two years ago at Christmas at

half past 12 at night. And they actually got good viewing figures

for that time of day. I think they were trying to test whether they

were popular or not and they probably said ‘oh, they only got

three-quarters of a million’. Well, at half past 12 that’s not bad.”

Tim concurs with my comment that it’s strange a channel such as

UK Gold has not picked up The Goodies.

“An independent company brought out DVDs and they’ve sold

incredibly well. They’ve been digitally remastered so they actually

look better than they ever did.”

Now Berkshire residents Tim and his wife Christine who have

been married for 44 years – her father was a housemaster at

Repton School - try to get back to Derbyshire once a year. It

usually coincides with a trip to the Tiny Tim Trust, a charity which

provides equipment and resources for children with special

needs, of which Tim is patron.

His other interests include football - he is a former honorary

vice-president of Derby County – cricket and golf. He did a

television series, Golf Clubs with Tim Brooke-Taylor, for one of

the satellite channels and this month is due to play in the annual

Jimmy Tarbuck Golf Classic tournament in Portugal.

Tim admits he is probably looking through rose-tinted glasses but

never tires of praising his birthplace.

“Buxton is not a big town but it’s self-contained. It was a perfect

place to grow up. I’ve always sold Buxton because I owe it an

enormous amount.”

So does the actor, writer, comedian and pop star have any

ambition he would like to fulfil? He would like to do another TV

comedy show, although he admits he is not quite sure what.

“I always enjoy watching sitcoms. They’re not fashionable now

but they still make me laugh more than most. It would be very

hard work but it’s that feeding off the audience which I’ve always

liked in comedy, both performing and watching.”

As many people in the entertainment industry will tell you,

comedy is a serious business. So don’t be surprised to see a Tim

Brooke-Taylor sitcom on the small screen soon – he certainly has

the gravitas to pull it off.

Steve Orme

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Every year around the middle of December I am

invited to join the Derbyshire Association of the

Blind’s (DAB) Christmas walk. This year was no

exception, but it did come with a reminder to bring

waterproofs! Apparently, or so Keith my blind friend

and organiser of the walk told me, there was likely to

be a lot of mud; how right he was, but it is something

that has to be accepted at this time of the year.

The walk starts and finishes at the hospitable Horse

and Jockey in Wessington before moving out in the

general direction of Crich where the beacon of the

Stand makes a good indicator. Fortunately the mud

Keith promised was not too bad, mostly as one

would expect, around valley bottoms and ploughed

fields. The walk should be perfect in frosty weather,

but a note of caution nevertheless; frozen mud can be

a bit ankle turning as they say.

Wessington sits roughly in the middle of a little

known corner of Derbyshire, the largest village in a

group of farming hamlets to the west of a ridge used

by the Romans to carry their Rykneild Street on its

way north to Chesterfield. All the farms, which look

as though they have been around since the

seventeenth century, sit amidst some of the most

fertile land in the area. Winter wheat was just making

itself obvious in fields, where if the weather had been

warmer, could easily have grown rice! Several farms

have been amalgamated and the surplus houses and

cottages converted into most pleasant properties,

especially around the straggling hamlet of Wheatcroft.

There were plenty of sheep and beef cattle still

braving the elements and although guide dogs are

trained to ignore stock, it was only courteous to

keep them on the lead when crossing meadows. One

of the dogs is called Dylan and he has featured in my

walks from time to time. Born and bred in Sheffield,

he ignores sheep, possibly thinking them to be large

cats, but hates cows. He makes no attempt to chase

them, but grumbles and mutters all the way until they

are out of sight.

walk with ramblerm n h y

Helpful InformationAbout 4½ miles (7.25km)

of field and brook side

walking with gentle climbs

throughout. Muddy

sections around

Lindwaysprings Brook and

fields on either side of

Wheatcroft village.

Public Transport. TM Travel

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Alfreton stops on the

green at Wessington.

Recommended map:

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A winter walk from

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THE WALK• With your back to the Horse and Jockey,

cross the main road heading for the green

more or less opposite and follow the lane at

its far side, past new houses and as far as a

largish house sheltering behind a high hedge

on your right..

Wessington is unique amongst north Derbyshire

villages in that it has a common, known here as

Wessington Green. The concrete pillar

surrounded by wooden seats opposite the

village school contains a cache, recording life in

the twentieth century.

• Opposite the entrance drive to the house,

climb over a rather awkward stile on your

left and bear right, downhill across a field

where two large friendly horses live.

I didn’t notice the horses when I climbed over the

stile, but soon became aware of them when

their hot breath blew down my neck. They were

obviously on the lookout for the odd carrot or

toffee, but as none were on offer, they totally

ignored us on our return later that morning.

• Aim towards the bottom corner of a wood

on your left and go through another

awkward stile and into the first muddy

section of the walk. Turn right and walk

down the field, keeping just a few feet to the

left of a boundary hedge.

• Cross the brook by a plank bridge and bear

right and then left on to a track to the side

of a ploughed field.

• Join the access track leading to Spring Farm,

but do not go as far as the farm buildings.

• Turn right by a gate and cross the field in

front of the farm, bearing left and then

downhill to a side stream.

• Follow the muddy track up and over into

Lindwaysprings Brook valley and then

through woodland away from the brook and

on to a fairly wide track.

• Continue past a converted farm, just one of

the excellent properties in the area and go

forwards until a side road is reached.

• Turn left along the quiet lane and go down

to the brook once more.

• Skirt round another converted property

and on the far side of a large stone barn, the

last building; leave the road by climbing over

a stone stile beside the corner of the barn.

• Cross the field immediately to the right of

the house by going diagonally right and

downhill.

• Cross a small side stream and bear right to

climb fairly steeply uphill to the top corner

of the field at a junction of boundary walls.

• Go forwards and into a walled track visibly

used by cows on their way to milking.

The track will unfortunately be muddy at all

times, but perversely the firmest ground will

usually be in the water filled tracks made by

tractors.

• Go through the yard of Beech Farm and out

along its drive, then bear left downhill

through the scattered hamlet of Wheatcroft.

Take notice of the restored farm implements and

an old pillar box in the yard of Beech Farm,

obviously collector’s items of merit.

• Where the road bears left and right, turn

sharp left and go downhill along a wide

grassy track beside a high stone wall.

• Climb through a stile when the track

reaches a field of winter wheat and go

downhill on a field path until it reaches a

footpath junction bedside a boundary

hedge.

• Turn sharp left and follow the path as far as

the access drive to Spring Farm

• Turn right along the drive, rejoining the

outward part of the walk, but in the

opposite direction.

• Where the drive bears sharply to the right,

go forwards on to the track beside the

ploughed field, following it towards the

tree-shrouded brook.

• Cross the stream and go uphill to the left to

reach the unsurfaced lane back into

Wessington.

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Don’t miss an exuberant, high energy live

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Derby LIVE’s Assembly Rooms on Sat 9 Feb,

8pm. Support comes from Kirsty Bromley

and her band. One of the up and coming

young singers making a name for herself on

the folk scene with her own unique version

of songs from the English tradition.

11-12 Hull Truck Theatre presents Jane EyreBy Charlotte Brontë12 Anton & Erin Go To Hollywood13 Gilbert and Sullivan Abridged15-16 Chinese State Circus – Yin YangChinese artistes will perform remarkableacrobatics, martial arts and humanjuggling in this daring, breath-taking andthrilling family show.15 Derby Jazz – Darius Brubeck Quartet18 The Elephant Bridesmaid by Steven Lee20 Harry Hill - Sausage Time - The self-styledfloppy-collared loon is back with a new liveshow.21 Dancing Queen22 Ola Onabule23 Derek Acorah – The Eternal Spirits Tour24 Hey Diddle Diddle - A magical show of

songs, laughter and audience participation –

ideal for children of all ages, especially those

under 5.

26 to 2 March The Good Companions: AGreat Night OutMarch 2 Hairy Bikers – Larger Than Live2 Justin Moorhouse – Justin Time3 Heidi Talbot3 Wedding Fair6-9 Gatepost Theatre Company Presents: TheWedding Singer6-7 Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom7 Gretchen Peters8 The Rat Pack Live9 Rock 'n' Roll Paradise12-16 Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company

Presents – The Winter's Tale13 The Fureys & Davey Arthur

Royal Centre Nottingham & ConcertHall 0115 989 5555www.royalcentre-nottingham.co.ukFebruary3 Anton & Erin - The UK's favourite dancingduo Anton Du Beke & Erin Boag are back. 5 Nottingham Classics - sinfonia ViVA8-9 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte CarloGrab your diaries and start circling the dateswhen you can again be amused.9 Beanbag Music Club. Magical musicaladventures for under 6s & their families12 Boogie Nights The ConcertThe West End's original and favourite 70smusical is back with an all star cast12 Dirty Dancing15 The Nolans19 Harry Hill - Sausage Time. The self-styled

DIARYm n h WHAT’S ON LOCALLYemail: [email protected]

Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel

18 February 2013 7:30 PM

Much-loved British rocker Steve Harley has been

touring consistently for over 30 years and shows no

sign of slowing down. Now back with Cockney Rebel

for their first full band British appearance in several

years, Steve’s captivating performances now

encompass some brilliant new songs that are sure to

be future classics.

Cockney Rebel first broke onto the scene in mid 1973

with the release of Sebastian, which was an immediate

success in Europe. The band then released their debut

album The Human Menagerie to wide acclaim.

A prolific songwriter and renowned lyricist, Steve

returns with a setlist packed with all his big songs –

Judy Teen, Mr Soft, Here Comes The Sun, Mr Raffles

(Man, It Was Mean), Sebastian and of course, the

smash hit Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me),

which still guarantees a feel-good highlight at every

show.

Location: Buxton Opera House

£22, £24


floppy-collared loon is back at the RoyalConcert Hall 21-23 Moscow City Ballet24 Sunday Morning Piano Series - JuhoPohjonen25 Dirty Dancing28 Nottingham Classics - BBC PhilharmonicMarch2 Julian Lloyd Webber and NYO3 The Robert Cray Band4 Halfway to Paradise6 Richard Thompson6-8 Rambert Dance Company9 Nottingham High School 500th Anniversary9 How to Catch a Star

Lacemarket TheatreBox Office 0115 9507201February11-16 On Golden Pond27 - 2 Mar Elton John's GlassesMarch 11-16 The Winslow Boy

Nottingham Arenawww.nottingham-arena.comFebruary1-3 Madagascar Live

Nottingham PlayhouseBox Office 0115 941 9419www.nottinghamplayhouse.co.ukFebruary7 The Old Fashioned. A cocktail of musicfrom a group of musicians with a long andwide ranging pedigree.9 My Big Little Sister. A delightfully funnystory for 4–8 year olds.10 Carl Donnelly. This Edinburgh ComedyAward nominee comes to the Playhouse.

Buxton Opera House & Pavilion ArtsCentre. www.buxtonoperahouse.orgFebruary4 Woody Sez5 Inspector Norse6 Milton Jones7 Dr Feelgood8 The Meat Loaf Story

8 Justin Moorhouse9 Maria Friedman10 The Nightingale10 Mothership – A Tribute to Led Zeppelin 12 The Soldiers 13 The Circus of Horrors14 Mad About ABBA15 John Shuttleworth15 3Fold16 Cast17 Richard Hawley18 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel18 Michael Chapman19 The Zappatistas19 Juan Martin Flamenco Dance Ensemble 20 Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion20 The Men They Couldn’t Hang21 Heaven 1721 King Pleasure & The Biscuit Boys22 June Tabor & Oysterband23 Red Hot Chilli Pipers23 Ruby Turner24 Canon, Campbell, Watchorn & O’Connorof The Dubliners26 The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists27 Gilbert and Sullivan Abridged28 Boeing Boeing March1Recitals at the Arts Centre - AuroraPercussion Duo1Buxton Buzz Comedy Club2The Elephant Bridesmaid2Toby Hadoke - My Stepson Stole My SonicScrewdriver3 Jazz at the Arts Centre - The Trefor Owen& Shades of Shearing (Pavilion Arts 3 Rohan McCullough in Testament Of Youth(Studio Theatre)3 Bill Oddie - Unplucked4-5 New Jersey Nights 6Yamato – The Drummers Of Japan7-8 Swan Lake8-9 In A Land Much Like Ours9 The Nutcracker10 Madam Butterfly

Palace Theatre Mansfieldwww.mansfield.gov.uk/palacetheatre01623 63313February9 The Meat Loaf Story13-14 Port Manteau18 The Owl Who Was Afraid of the DarkThe Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark is acharming production brought to us byBlunderbus with music, songs and exquisitehandcrafted puppets that remain true to JillTomlinson’s original classic.Plop is a baby Barn Owl. He lives at the topof a very tall tree. He is fat and fluffy. He hasbig round eyes and very knackety knees. Plopis exactly the same as every Barn Owl thathas ever been – except for one thing. Plop isafraid of the dark! Join Plop as he journeysinto the night-time world of campfires,fireworks and moonlit adventures. Littlepeople will love this funny, heartwarming

tale. But, big people will also have lots of fun,too. 20-22 Showcase 201323 Rotary Junior Showtime26 S4K’s The Tempest27 Good Old Days Of Music Hall and Variety28 Too FastMarch2 Classic Clapton6-10 Me and My Girl13 The Irish House Party14 A Celebration of John Denver15 An Evening of Burlesque16 Chris Packham Wild Night Out!17 Roy Orbison and Friends

Derby Theatre (formerly Derby

Playhouse) Theatre Walk, St

Peter’s Quarter, Derby,

Box Office: 01332 593939

www.derbytheatre.co.uk

February

12-16 Losing the Plot.

Brand new comedy from John Godber

Company and Theatre Royal Wakefield

written and directed by Godber himself.

Starring Steve Huison and Susan Cookson

21-23 How to Disappear Completely and

Never be Found

20-23 One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show

The Cosby Show meets Restoration Comedy

in this hilariously outrageous play set in

1970s Philadelphia

28 to March 1 All Our Daughters

A New Vic Borderlines production exploring

issues around forced marriages and so called

honour violence.

28 to Mar 2 Oh, What a Lovely War!

Combining movement, music and satire to

create a chronicle of the Great War.

March

2 Hardeep Singh Koli: Indian Takeaway Writer

and Celebrity Masterchef, Hardeep is on a

mission to find the best Indian takeaway in

the UK

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BIRDWATCHING FOR BEGINNERS WALK

at CARSINGTON WATER

With all the summer visitors, including the ospreys, now back in Africa, now is

a chance to come and see the winter thrushes, the ducks, and - he's back!!.. the

great northern diver, so come for a leisurely 2-hour stroll with the volunteers

to find the diver and get some useful tips on bird identification. All walks start

from the visitor centre at 10am prompt, and are on the first Sunday of EVERY

month. Adults accompanied by children are always welcome - bring binoculars

and appropriate wear. Future dates - 3rd February, 3rd March and 7th April. To

ensure a place tel: 01629 540696 to book.

Darley Abbey Historical Group

Friday February 15th 2013 "Every Picture Tells a Story" Presented by Danny

Welës

Friday March 15th 2013 "Felucca and Pharaohs" Presented by Mr and Mrs

Fitzpatrick

The Marlowe Players.

‘Shakespeare Country’ by Peter Whelan. Four couples find themselves in a

wood on Midsummer's Eve. Add a sprinkling of magic potion, some spirits, then

watch this comedy of mistaken identities take off. The production will be at

Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey

Yard (off New Rd), Darley Abbey from Tues 19th until Sat 23rd March, 2013.

Tickets are all priced £6 and doors open at 7pm for a 7.30pm start. Book via

the Marlowe Players Box Office: 07961 607372 or the website:

www.marlowe-players.co.uk

Sitwell Singers invite you to Come and Sing with them!

Saturday 2 March 2012, 10am - 5pm

Strutts Community Centre, Belper

Derby’s Sitwell Singers will be bringing their popular Come and Sing event

back to Strutts Community Centre in Belper again this year. On Saturday 2

March, Conductor Malcolm Goldring will take participants through a full day’s

workshop on Schubert’s visionary Mass in A Flat, culminating in an informal

performance open to the public at 4pm. Helen Geary, Chair of the Sitwell

Singers, said: “This will be the third time we have brought our annual Come

and Sing event to Strutts – it’s a wonderful venue and previous events have had

a terrific atmosphere. Last year over a hundred singers tackled Mozart’s

Requiem – we would love to see both familiar and new faces joining us this

year to sing this wonderful piece by Schubert. Sheet music and refreshments

will be provided – just bring your voice and your enthusiasm!”

Advanced booking is essential – last year’s event sold out well in advance so

make sure you don’t miss out!

www.sitwellsingers.org.uk

Little Chester Local History Group

Thurs Feb 21st - an illustrated talk by Robin Knott about our Local

Mountain Rescue - its History and Development. We meet at 7.30pm in

Chester Green Community Centre , Old Chester Road, Derby. Admission

non-members £2. For further information Tel.

559615.

Uppertown Social Centre

Uppertown, Ashover, S45 0JF.

Sat 2nd February. The Ann Duggan Band. Country Blues and Roots.7pm for

8pm. £10 including supper. Contact Eddie Marriott for information and tickets

on: 01246 590502 or 07966 154798 Website www.uppertown.org

Allestree Flower Group

Tuesday 19th February 2013

Practice Night and Supper

Venue - Evergreen Hall, Cornhill, Allestree.

Admission £2 non members, £3 free.

For further details contact our Chairman on 01332 675727

or email: [email protected]

Acrylic for Beginners

Smalley Art Group, 79 Main Road, Smalley, DE7 6DS is starting a 24-week

Painting Landscapes in Acrylic for Beginners course on Wednesday evenings

7-9pm which commences on 6 February 2013.

For further details contact our Chairman on 01332 675727

Kyleburn Historical Society

January 17: AGM followed by - Loscoe Then and Now - a study of this local

village by Brian Key

February 21: Sir Arthur Heywoods Railway’s by Trevor Griffin. Meetings at

Kilburn Baptist church schoolroom, Highfield Road, Kilburn. 7.30pm. Admission

for non-members is £2.00.

Belper Historical Society

Wednesday 6th February talk by Jill Day on ‘Birkin’s Court’

Birkin’s Court was some of the earliest housing provided by the Strutt family

for workers in the mills at Belper.

Wednesday 6th March talk by John Barnett on ‘The Poor Law in Action in

Muggington, 1795-1834’

Before the modern welfare system, people were dependant on The Poor Law

which, if they could have it, gave minimal parish relief to the very needy. Belper

Historical Society meet at St. John’s Chapel, Belper at 7.30pm Charge for

non-members £1.50.

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Best Folk ‘n’ Acoustic Musicin Derbyshire

Fri 9 Feb 8pm - TIM EDEY & BRENDAN POWER

Winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2012 for ‘Best Duo’ & ‘Musician of

the Year’ (Tim Edey) - Tim and Brendan love to improvise, which means that

every time they play a piece of music it sounds different and fresh. These two

are truly amazing!

Plus KIRSTY BROMLEY and

her band. One of the up and

coming young singers making a

name for herself on the folk

scene with her own unique

version of songs from the

English tradition. Assembly

Rooms, Market Place Derby

DE1 3HA Box Office 01332

255800 www.derbylive.co.uk,

or 01773 853428

Sun 17 March 6pm - WAR

HORSE - THE CONCERT

A reading by its author,

MICHAEL MORPURGO,

combined with songs from

Derbyshire musicians and BBC

Radio 2 Folk Award winners,

JOHN TAMS & BARRY COOPE. A powerful story, through the eyes of a

horse, which moves from life on a farm in peaceful Devon to survival on the

Western Front in the First World War. This is the epic story of the horse who

didn’t have the human frailty of taking sides. Suitable for children aged 10

years and above.

Assembly Rooms, Market Place Derby

DE1 3HA

Box Office 01332 255800 www.derbylive.co.uk, or 01773 853428.

For tickets and information ‘phone Ticket Hotline 01773 853428

www.prpromotions.org.uk

phone: 07549 173096website:

www.derbyfocus.org.uk

• Organised by members for the members

• Age 40+ new members welcome

• Varied monthly events programme

• We do walking, dancing, parties, holidays etc.

Derby Focus Activities club

The club where activities and people mix.


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Derby High School has a long tradition of celebratingoutstanding academic results at both Senior and SixthForm level. The excellent standards of care and teachingwhich bring about these results are also a feature of theeducation being provided to its Primary and Pre-Schoolchildren.

The Primary section of the school is open to both boys and girls agedbetween 3 and 11. Full or part time part-funded places are offered atPre-School age with all those from Reception upwards attending fulltime.

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Tahminay came to greet us at the door and

gave us the choice of a window seat or one

near the bar. Even though it was too cold

outside to ‘people watch’, the brightly lit

shops made for a pleasant view. Tahminay

and her husband Sash have run Viva for the

last three years, Sash receiving most of his

training in Italian restaurants around the

Midlands. Along the way he has gleaned the

best from talented chefs until he could give

his creativity full rein in his own restaurant.

From quite an extensive new menu we chose

the bruschetta speciale and the funghi con

spinaci. These were exquisitely presented; the

bruschetta had a lovely light texture and was

piled high with sweet cherry tomatoes,

caramelised onion, little pieces of mozzarella

and rocket, all topped with Parma ham and a

crisp basil leaf. There was a purée of mango,

some reduced balsamic and a quenelle of

green olive tapenade made with anchovies, a

chef special. The funghi con spinaci were

piping hot and served with a Napoli sauce,

dusted with parmesan shavings together with

a slice of ciabatta bread.

For our main courses we chose a traditional

Italian calzone and a chicken dish. The

manzo calzone was made from light pizza

dough with no burnt edges or thick crust.

Inside, it oozed with a homemade ragu sauce

which contained strips of ham, salami,

pepperoni and chunks of chicken. A winter

salad accompanied this and although it was a

man sized meal it wasn’t heavy in any way. A

good sized portion too was my pollo sorpresa,

served with a creamy sauce - the chicken was

wrapped in Parma ham and topped with

mozzarella which kept the meat moist while

the oven bake gave the mozzarella a golden

glow. A parmesan wafer and ribbons of crispy

parsnip decorated the top and potato wedges

were quirkily served as an accompaniment.

We had both thoroughly enjoyed our meals

so far but decided to share a dessert so as to

leave room for a coffee. This proved to be a

wise decision as the slice of chocolate fudge

cake was generous to say the least. Served

warm, the sponge was rich and moist; the

icing smooth and creamy, with a squiggle of

cream and together with the portion of

chocolate ice cream there was plenty to

share. A pretty basket of spun sugar contained

a selection of berries and as well as being

visually very attractive, balanced the sweet

chocolate perfectly.

With a shot of iced limoncello to finish I

realised that we hadn’t sampled the wine

menu and although my husband enjoyed his

Peroni very much, you do have to leave

something for next time!

The chef’s attention to detail in his

presentation is impressive and his creativity

obvious, but Viva hasn’t lost the lovely

relaxed atmosphere that will bring you back

again and again. With its feet firmly on the

ground they welcome families with children

and couples alike with space to cater for all

and you can call in just for a main course or

make an evening of it. Open seven days a

week, it is a place we feel we would like to

know better.

Buon AppetitoDining At ViVA

It took several attempts but we eventually made it one verysnowy evening for a meal at Viva, an Italian restaurant onthe main road in Matlock. We love Italian cuisine and untilrecently it was our choice destination for holidays. Whenyou think of Italy you think of their passion for food, not

just for the everyday food of the worker; pizza and lasagnabut also for the delicious sauces subtly flavoured with

fresh herbs lovingly made to accompany local meat andfish, food to linger over.

A shot of iced limoncello


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Needless to say, after navigating the fog and the vagaries

of my satnav, which decided to take us on a very varied

route through what I am sure is lovely countryside,

when one can actually see it, I was very glad to see the stone built

building which sits atop Pudding Pie Hill. Intrigued by both the

name of the pub and the hill itself, I had a look on the pub’s

website and found a full explanation of both. The name Fox and

Goose was given to the Inn by the monks of Beauchief Abbey who

often visited; Fox and Goose was the name of a board game

played by the monks, where a single piece, the fox, tries to

capture geese one by one so preventing them from hemming him

in and winning the game. The name Pudding Pie Hill comes from

the vapour which rose from burnt limestone that the farmers of the

time spread on their land to aid plant growth, giving the hill the

appearance of a giant steamed pudding.

We were welcomed at the bar by Lynne, the Inn’s General

Manager, whose natural hospitality was evident throughout the

evening and taken through to the Orangery; a new addition to the

old part of the Inn, providing a roomy and ambient atmosphere.

Although it was early in the evening, there were already a fair few

diners and as the evening progressed the room filled up nicely.

The kitchen is visible from the dining area and we could see the

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Lynne brought us some drinks over and gave us the menus. I was

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Last night we had the pleasure of beinginvited to The Fox & Goose Inn in Wigley,

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Our mains arrived shortly, a towering homemade burger,

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tomatoes and a little basket of chunky chips. On the side of the

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When our desserts arrived, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to

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We were served a trio of desserts, as the chef couldn’t decide

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most definitely not least, quite possibly the best cheesecake I have

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Lynne brought us coffees to end our meal. The service is

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asking for black coffee, it invariably arrives with a pot of cream or

milk – it didn’t this time.

As well as providing a wonderful restaurant, with a private dining

room available if required, the Fox and Goose also has a licence

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Thank you to Lynne and all the staff as we had a wonderful dining

experience, the Fox and Goose comes highly recommended.

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The starters tasted as deliciousas they looked.


Fish and ChipsPreparation time: 25 minsCooking time: 15 mins

Ingredients (fish): 1 medium sized cod fillet per person 100g (4oz) plain flour 100g (4oz) self raising flour 5ml (1/2 tsp) salt 280ml (1/2 pt) milk and a splash oflager15ml (1 tbsp) of oil 2 stiffly beaten egg whites 1 egg yolk Water You will also need: Sunflower oil

Method1. Sift the flours and a pinch of salt intoa basin. Make a well and add the eggyolk (keep the egg whites for the nextstep) and liquid and beat the mixturetogether until it’s smooth. Leave thebatter to rest for 30 minutes. You canadd a little cold sparkling water to yourrested batter to give it a lighter finish. 2. Meanwhile, whisk the egg whitesuntil they are light and fluffy. Fold theminto the rested batter mix and you areready to go. If you like, you can use asplash of lager in your batter as it cangive it a bit more flavour as well asmore bubbles for a lighter covering. 3. Coat the fish lightly in seasoned flour.When ready, carefully hold the fish atthe tail end and dip it into the batter.Use the side of a bowl to wipe thebattered fish lightly to remove anyexcess. 4.The fat temperature in the fryer shouldbe pre-heated to 180˚C and the wirebasket should be removed. Gently placethe fish away from you into the oil toavoid splashes with the hot oil. 5.The fish should rise to the surface after3-4 minutes and may need turning witha erforated spoon to ensure an evenbrowning and crispy texture. Afteranother 3-4 minutes the fish should beready.

Ingredients (chips):Allow 2 medium sized potatoes perperson, preferably Maris Piper, washedand peeled sunflower oil.

Method: 1. Cut the potatoes into slices about1cm (1/2in) thick, and 5cm (2ins) long.And then cut the slices into strips 5 x 1 x1cm (2 x 1/2 x1/2ins). Wash themwell and dry them with a cloth. 2.Place them into the basket, and lowerthem carefully into the deep oil at165˚C. I find the best way to cook chipsis by doing it in two stages so once thepotato chip has softened and become“limp”, drain it thoroughly trying not toshake the basket and damage the

chips. 3.Put them aside on a plate. 4. Whenrequired for eating simply place thechips back into a basket. Increase theoil temperature to 180-185˚C and lowerthe chips into the oil carefully. Cookthem until they are crisp and goldenthen drain them well, season with saltand they’re ready to eat.

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