For well over a century, Riber Castle has fascinated visitors to Matlock, its distinctive outline…
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Part Two In the second of his studies of Robinson & Sons in the Sixties,…
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…
Just one remarkable Old Cestrefeldian has received a Nobel prize – and he comes from…
In the last of this fascinating series, Patrick Coleman looks at the stately home that…
This stately home nearly got a second 400-ft extension, as Patrick Coleman reports. WHEN the…
Nicola Lisle explores the Derbyshire connections of novelist George Eliot, who was born 200 years…
In this new series, Patrick Coleman looks at some of the weird and wonderful structures…
Part Two of our series about the fascinating histories of local pubs, taken from a…









