The Royal Crown Derby (RCD) china factory on Osmaston Road had been going since 1878 and received a Royal Warrant...
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One of Capability Brown’s earliest works, Stowe Gardens in Buckinghamshire was looking at its best when Brian Spencer visited it...
Being the sort of universal hack that I am (when it comes to writing history), in the days before the...
Saying you were once a vegetarian is like admitting you were a once better person. But here’s my guilty secret....
Two major Peakland rivers, the Dove and Manifold, begin their lives a little over a mile apart, high up on...
In 2013 I wrote an article in Country Images about collecting local books, and threatened to continue the theme with...
Travelling back in time a few millenia, Brian Spencer describes what the Peak District looked like when land that became...
The outskirts of Chesterfield on a grey and dismal morning seems an unlikely place to find la dolce vita. But...
There’s something a bit magical about the Spotted Calf café – the small but perfectly formed off-spring of the Spotted...
With an introductory splutter, the public address system announced, first in Norwegian, then in English and German, that we were...
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