No native West Hallam resident, of course, would acknowledge being resident of Ilkeston – they are fiercely independent folk –...
No native West Hallam resident, of course, would acknowledge being resident of Ilkeston – they are fiercely independent folk –...
If you were to walk towards the city centre in Derby along Queen Street, you would eventually reach St. Michael’s,...
By Maxwell Craven “Some years ago, a friend who is a keen collector of local postcards, Don Gwinnett, sent me...
by Maxwell Craven The standing remains of the moated secondary seat of the de Bradbourne family no longer exist for...
by Maxwell Craven Lea Hall is a sequestered little paradise, half lost between the villages of Tissington and Bradbourne which,...
When one speaks of houses that are lost, one speaks of houses built, lived in and eventually discarded as redundant,...
For somewhere so close to Derby, and somewhere which was once on the very edge of a coal-mining area, Morley...
The present hall at Brizlincote is visible for miles around, set on its dominant hill and looking for all the...
Netherthorpe Old Hall was a stone built Elizabethan small manor house situated in Netherton, one of the group of modest...
By Maxwell Craven The history of Ashford-in-the-Water is both in places obscure and also generally complex; there are unhelpful gaps...

This is one of the places you may have driven past in recent years, seen the usual ice cream van...

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Around 70km north of Hanoi, Vietnam a beautiful Asiatic moonbear stretches to his full height and climbs up onto a...

A garden room is more than just an extension of your home – it’s a versatile space that can transform...

By Tom Bell “If you thought running the pitch when your favourite team won a trophy was the closest you’d...