Showing posts with label Derbyshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Derbyshire. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2026

The straight and narrow path to Marzipan Tunnel

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Our History Underfoot takes us to the site of the once-massive Steveley Ironworks. He searches for a railway footbridge, because legend per...
Monday, September 21, 2026

The ruins of Derwent church emerge from Ladybower Reservoir

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As is traditional in a dry summer, Our History Underfoot has been to Ladybower Reservoir to see what remains of Derwent village have been re...
Tuesday, September 08, 2026

Traffic Cop Nick Lovatt sacked after committing more than 20 driving offences

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Embed from Getty Images The Derby Telegraph wins our Headline of the Day Award. On one occasion, the fellow officer who stopped him is repo...
Sunday, September 06, 2026

Church could get first toilet in more than 700 years

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To the great relief of the parishioners of St Giles's at Hartington in Derbyshire, BBC News wins our Headline of the Day Award.
Thursday, July 09, 2026

Cromford Moor Mine and the legend of the Black Rocks

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Assailed by hay fever, flying insects and stinging nettles, Gareth Icke is our guide for a walk in the hills above the Derwent Valley in Der...
Friday, May 22, 2026

The Joy of Six 1522

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"Why, if the homes are unregistered and therefore illegal, are English councils still placing children in them? And how can the system ...
Friday, April 17, 2026

The long, long apprenticeship of Sir Nigel Hawthorne

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Before Yes Minister made him famous in 1980, Nigel Hawthorne served a long apprenticeship in the acting profession. But I had not grasped t...
Saturday, February 28, 2026

Derby councillors clash over cost of Snickers bars in heated council tax row

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  Derbyshire Live wins our Headline of the Day Award.  One of the judges was heard to ask what the point of Reform UK is if their councillo...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Llama drama! "Hero" rescue llamas who narrowly escaped death stop offender fleeing from police in Derbyshire

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Derbyshire Times wins our Headline of the Day Award by a distance with its tale of crime-fighting llamas. The judges have asked me to point...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Derbyshire bakery recruiting volunteer taste tester after pork pie furore

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This just in... At a meeting this evening, the judges have awarded Headline of the Day to the Derbyshire Times . Lord Bonkers suggests the b...
Monday, January 26, 2026

The five railway stations of Long Eaton

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Here's another great video from Trekking Exploration – like and subscribe everybody. I've visited the sites four of the five Long E...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

The Joy of Six 1464

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"Events are moving so quickly that it’s worth stopping to assess where we are. The U.S. government is currently building massive detent...
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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Plan would see canal boats on the Derwent in the centre of Derby

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With most of the low-hanging fruit having been picked, canal "restoration" projects now tend to involve the digging miles of new r...
Thursday, August 21, 2025

Derwent village is emerging from beneath Ladybower Reservoir

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The current drought is having a striking effect in Derbyshire, where the village of Derwent is emerging as the waters of Ladybower Reservoir...
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Sunday, June 15, 2025

In 1946 there was a plan to move Snailbeach village to a new site

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Here's a discovery. In 1946 there was a plan to move the Shropshire lead-mining village of Snailbeach to a new site nearer Minsterley. I...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Searching for what was once Dinting Railway Centre

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Dinting is a station on the Glossop line from Manchester Piccadilly and was also on the Great Central's Woodhead route from Manchester t...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

Canals in crisis? A stretch of the Erewash Canal without water

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Is the shortage of funds for canal maintenance starting to show? As the commentary on this video says, there have already been a number of ...
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Friday, February 28, 2025

Route of old railway used in the restoration of the Hereford and Gloucester Canal

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The blurb on the Court Above the Cut YouTube channel - like, subscribe and tell your friends - explains what's going on here: Digging a...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Back to Butterley Tunnel on the Cromford Canal

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Remember the great video Trekking Exploration video in which he traced the route of Butterley Tunnel ? That's the collapsed tunnel that...
Friday, December 13, 2024

Tracing the route of Butterley Tunnel on the Cromford Canal

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The 3083-yard Butterley tunnel is the great obstacle to the full restoration on the Cromford Canal. It was condemned as beyond economic repa...