It is 40 years this month since the 1984/85 miners’ strike started, which many have…
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Part Two In the second of his studies of Robinson & Sons in the Sixties,…
By Vivienne Milburn FRICS Independent Antiques Auctioneer & Valuer DERBYSHIRE designer Brian Asquith (1930-2008) was…
Vivienne looks at ‘REGARD’ brooches, the invention of the eternity ring – and the astonishing…
Part One In the first of two studies, Godfrey Holmes examines the firm that became…
Derbyshire has more than its share of historic houses – and three of them are…
By Vivienne Milburn FRICS Independent Antiques Auctioneer & Valuer If you are clearing out your…
Little known is the fact that the Peasants’ Revolt of 1831, led by Wat Tyler,…
The first ‘water hotel’ around Matlock was not the huge building that is now the…
Six Australians died in a tragic wartime accident close to a Derbyshire hamlet in January…