But, of course, there is more to Derbyshire than Matlock Bath. “Oh no!” (reader’s voice). Oh yes. I recently satisfied a long-nursed curiosity by visiting Long Eaton. I don’t know about you, but I find that, if I hear an announcement about where a stopping train is going to stop often enough, I develop a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Derbyshire’
Peace And Light In Long Eaton
Posted in Architecture, Arts, This England, Trains, tagged Andrew Stoddart, Architecture, Derbyshire, Libraries, Long Eaton, Stained Glass on December 3, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Matlock Bath Aquarium : Fish Plus
Posted in Fish, Nature, This England, tagged Aquaria, Derbyshire, Fish, Holograms, Matlock Bath on November 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
And so, reluctantly, our visit to Matlock Bath must draw to a close (thank God for that – the Readership). But, before we leave, let’s not forget to make time for a visit to the Aquarium, which has everything you would expect from such an establishment (i.e fish) and so much more! The Aquarium is the [...]
Arrangements In Black And Gold : Venetian Nights in Matlock Bath
Posted in This England, tagged Autumn, Boating, Derbyshire, Funfairs, Hearses, Illuminations, Light, Matlock Bath, Toads on November 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
(More from the Matlock Bath Tourist Board …) So, here we are again, in the middle of the annual rolling Fire Festival – Halloween, Diwali, Bonfire Night – with which we try to ward off the arrival of Winter. Like the Blackpool of my youth, Matlock Bath gets in early on this one with its [...]
“The Shivering Children Wait Their Doom” : Betjeman In Matlock Bath
Posted in Arts, Methodism, Poetry, Religion, tagged Derbyshire, John Betjeman, Matlock Bath, Poetry on October 29, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is John Betjeman’s poem about Matlock Bath (illustrated with a few snaps). I had forgotten about the poem when I visited, otherwise I would have tried to get one of the Methodist Church that features in it. Betjeman knew of Matlock Bath because of his liaison with Lady Elizabeth “Feeble” Cavendish, whose brother owned [...]
Hodgkinson’s Hotel
Posted in Animals, Nature, This England, tagged Derbyshire, Foxes, Holidays, Hotels, Matlock Bath, Roy Hattersley, Taxidermy on October 22, 2011 | 6 Comments »
As regular readers (if any) may remember, last year we took an Autumn break in Andalucia. This year, it was an overnight stay in Matlock Bath in the Peak District. Like many spa towns Matlock Bath first became popular with the Quality during the Napoleonic Wars when travel abroad was an impossibility (as it is today, [...]
A Pitch with no Square? : Grindleford
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Cricket, Pubs, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Cricket, Cricket pavilions, Derbyshire, Grindleford, Plague, Post Offices on August 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A day trip to Grindleford in Derbyshire on Saturday. It has a railway station (a stop on the pretty Hope Valley Line that runs from Sheffield to Manchester, it emerges suddenly after the lengthy Totley Tunnel), a couple of pubs and a church that was celebrating its hundredth birthday (so only twice as old as your [...]
A 99 for Ramprakash (and a regular cone for me)
Posted in Cricket, Sport, This England, Trains, tagged Chesterfield, Cricket, Cricket grounds, Derbyshire, Derbyshire County Cricket Club, Ice cream, Mark Nicholas, Queen's Park, Surrey County Cricket Club on July 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Derbyshire v Surrey, Queen’s Park, Chesterfield, County Championship, 28th June Mark Nicholas, in this month’s Wisden Cricketer (for the article in its full horror, see How to make 18 go into 12 ) writes “It would be no shame for some counties to relinquish their first-class status … Derbyshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire – to name [...]
Compare the Devils : a day out in the Peak District
Posted in Blogging, History, Politics, This England, tagged Caves, Chancels, Churches, Days Out, Derbyshire, Devil's Arse, Devils, English politics, Libertarians, Pipe bands on May 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Would you like to see my holiday snaps? Dread words. However, I thought you might be interested to see a few I took yesterday on a day trip to Castleton in the Peak District. Just talk amongst yourselves while I set up the projector … This is the magnificent view from the top of Treak [...]
