Andrew Simpson

I know I should have read up on the small mining community that was Bole Hill in Derbyshire. Looking out from Bole Hill, 2019 But I d...

We all know the full enormity of the Great War on all our communitie s. But the full impact comes only when you fall across a memoria...

I won’t be the only one who bewails the loss of the local corner shop, while at the same time popping into a supermarket or turning to onli...

Now I can bore the best of them with stories of what I did on my holidays, and the blog offers up endless possibilities. Entrance to Ke...

Wirksworth is a market town in the Derbyshire Dales district of Derbyshire, England, with a population recorded as 5,038 in the 2011 census...

I say a mystery but there will be someone who can offer up the explanation, because in the course of researching the story of cinemas, I ca...

Now I thought I was done with stories of Wirksworth ,  which is a small market town in Derbyshire.* But I overlooked its town hall, and...

Now my guide book tells me that Wirksworth is a small market town in Derbyshire with a population of five thousand, while Samuel Lewis, in ...

Now the people of Wirksworth are quite proud of their cruck building, and I wish I had taken more notice of the plaque which described its ...

It is a simple expression of gratitude. The stone stands away from the main memorial to those who died in the wars Britain has fought....

This will be the last of the stories from Wirksworth for a while. * Over the last week and a bit, I have been reflecting on the histor...