Buxton’s building a new future on its past

Buxton is celebrating the national Heritage Open Days festival  this month by demonstrating how its past is poised to bring a better future, as Barrie Farnsworth reports.

A UNIVERSITY which created the UK’s first spa degree, an opera house staffed by volunteers, England’s answer to New York’s Central Park and the oldest hotel in the country will have their stories told with the help of some of the most colourful characters from Buxton’s past, brought back to life by actors…