When the guillotine spelt the death of a Derbyshire monument!

In part two of this fascinating new series,Patrick Coleman looks at the ‘triumphal column’ that never was in Derbyshire.

WHEN GRAND PLANS for new developments suddenly fall through, it’s often money – or, rather, the lack of it – that lies behind the decision. Sometimes, however, there are more dramatic reasons and that is certainly the case with the subject of this month’s “what might have been”: Whittington’s Column…