Having adjourned to the Pack Horse Inn at Crowdecote, we felt duly refreshed, and continuing our journey took the turning...
Having adjourned to the Pack Horse Inn at Crowdecote, we felt duly refreshed, and continuing our journey took the turning...
By Brian Spencer Having only seen Durham city from the train stopped at Durham Station, perched on a ledge high...
Nucleated settlements are fairly scarce in the White Peak and the upper Derwent Valley, partly because the relief is challenging,...
The first time I came across the Bennerley Viaduct was one foggy November day, a few years back. We were...
This little ditty was taught to us by our Scottish geography teacher many years ago, and because of it, I...
Brian Spencer investigates the worst military disaster to occur on British Soil. The Ordnance Survey map for Derby and Burton...
Derbyshire has done more than any county in England to convert its disused railways into traffic-free greenways for cycling and...
Bonsall is tucked away in an upland bowl, high above the Derwent Valley and seems a place where time has...
In late 1914 the world was threatened by war. Shackleton volunteered to cancel his plans for an expedition and placed...
It seemed incredible to us that a settlement containing perhaps the finest miners’ cottages in the Midlands should have been...

by Maxwell Craven People often quite reasonably assume that Derby’s Market Place was the original historic core of the borough,...

The electric bicycle market is changing rapidly. Only a few years ago most people wouldn’t have considered buying an electric...

Brian Spencer visits one of the industrial revolution’s longest lasting major relics Gouged out by the last ice age over...

Just over 50 years since the legendary Brian Clough and Peter Taylor handed in their resignations at Derby County, fans...

by Brian Spencer Carlisle’s Crown and Mitre Hotel was our base for our visit to Cumbria with Slacks Travel. Overlooking...