Happy birthday to us!
As Reflections turns 34 this month, we’re rewinding to our first ever edition and revisiting life in March 1992.
It was fitting that a new magazine, launched by journalist Graham Bannister, should feature champagne – and our first edition carried a story on Pol Roger, the favoured fizz of Sir Winston Churchill.
Meanwhile, as the coal industry declined, thoughts turned to new energy sources. John Smith reported that a site near Ashover had – controversially – been identified as a possible wind farm location. The term “renewable energy” was clearly still a novel concept, warranting the use of inverted commas in John’s report!
Our motoring section revealed that you could buy a new Volvo for less than £10,000, while – yet to be overtaken by mobile phones – the car phone was the ultimate accessory for busy people on the go.
Times change and life moves on … from our launch edition as ‘the monthly magazine for Chesterfield’, we’ve grown to serve audiences in north Derbyshire, the Derbyshire Dales and the Peak District – and further afield through our digital channels.
Still independently owned by Bannister Publications, we’re immensely proud that, more than three decades on, Reflections continues to be enjoyed and trusted by readers and advertisers.
